On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:28:54 -0800 (PST), CJ wrote: > > Writing to NTFS is fine with Knoppix (I do it routinely) but > > for whatever reason, it can't be done--or done easily--in > > Mandriva. > > thats probably because mandriva writes files to the hard disk > in a different way. I noticed that if i save a multiline text > file in mandriva and open that same file in windows, it will > display a little block at the end of the line and it will not > start a new line after the end of that block.
No, that has to do with linefeed characters which are different between Winblows and *nix systems. It you have a text file in Linux, you can run "unix2dos filename.txt" and it will switch the linefeed chars to Winblows. "dos2unix filename.txt" does the reverse. Miark ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
