text files turning into executables after copying to PC Thumb drive

Hi, I have an 8 G thumb drive formated to MS-DOS (FAT32), when I copy a plain text file (no .txt extension) to it the text file becomes a Unix Executable file when it gets there. Text files with extensions e.g. .rtf .txt remain unchanged. Is there some quick way of getting these pseudo

Re: text files turning into executables after copying to PC Thumb drive

On 10/02/2010, at 7:44 PM, Brian Scott wrote: Hi, I have an 8 G thumb drive formated to MS-DOS (FAT32), when I copy a plain text file (no .txt extension) to it the text file becomes a Unix Executable file when it gets there. Text files with extensions e.g. .rtf .txt remain

Re: text files turning into executables after copying to PC Thumb drive

you must use the file extension.. windows relies on them much more than a mac, because windows is not using a resource for for file info storage also bear in mind when you have the thumb drive connceted to a windows machine you may see see some files twice eg windows.txt (original data