cp /home/adam/xxx.sxw /mnt/DOS/Documents and Settings/Adam/My Documents
Space is a parameter delimiter, so you need
cp /home/adam/xxx.sxw '/mnt/DOS/Documents and Settings/Adam/My Documents'
so that the spaces embedded in the filename are regarded as part of the filename rather than regarded as seperating parameters.
When I copied it into /mnt/DOS and pasted it into WordXP
it could not be legibly opened in any XP format (did I miss something here ?).
When OpenOffice saves a documents with a .swx extension it saves them in a compressed XML format. Word XP does know about this format and can't understand files in this format.
Go into OpenOffice and save the document as xxx.doc. When OO saves documents with a .doc extension it saves them in a OLE-based binary format used by Word.
cp merely copies data, it does not understand the data it is copying. So cp xxx.sxw xxx.doc will not move a file from OpenOffice to Word format.
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