Re: A file is not always what you think it is.
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 05:58:18PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
>
> Apparently a .txt file written under Win95 can be chmod-ed, but not
> executed. I used ae to write a simple script from scratch under Linux
> and it worked no problem at all.
>
> That makes me wonder: I have to install some packages on the notebook
> to get the external CD-ROM drive working. If I copy them from the
> CD-ROM on a DOS formatted floppy and then transfer to the notebook,
> will I get the same kind of trouble?
>
You should look at the program "unix2dos" and its man page.
Rob
--
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's
transparency.
-- George Nathan
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