[EMAIL PROTECTED] had this to say on 02/25/2006 10:40 AM: >Hi Folks, > >I finally got MEPIS Linux to access my VFAT 32 partitions. I was able to >update some simple text files but ran into two problems: > >(1) End-of-lines were replaced by unprintable characters. I think 0d0ah was >being replaced by 0ah. > >(2) I would end up with two versions of the file; one FILENAME.EXT the way I >wanted it; the other as FILENAME.EXT~ without any changes applied. (I only >want the first one.) > >I was using Kedit. > >Any thoughts on how to fix these? > > Hi Jennifer,
Windows and Unix use different EOL characters in ASCII text files. For DOS and Windows, end of line is defined by a 2 character CRLF (carriage return and line feed). For Unix based systems, such as Linux, the EOL is a single character, LF (line feed). There are some command line environment options for Kedit to change the default behavior to CRLF... you may want to review the help text or google for specifics (I don't use it but maybe someone on the list will chime in with the correct options). The files with .ext~ are usually backup files, which contain data prior to the last save. Try opening one with Kedit and check the contents. You can easily disable this feature in the miscellaneous section of the configuraiton options. Regards, Colin -- "To err is human. Effective mayhem requires the root password!" _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
