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 file) to copy
.windows.txt (mac resource fork) do not copy this!
James
On 10/02/2010, at 19:44, 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 unchanged.
Is there some quick way of getting these pseudo executable files on
the thumb drive
to turn back into text files.
Or must I put an extension all my plain text files before
transferring them.
I'd like to keep the TD MS-DOS (FAT32) so it can be accessed on a PC.
TIA
Brian
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