But what I observed is that Linux automaticaly converts files from FAT partitions to unix format so when you mount those partitions to be visible in Samba they are Unix-like format and sometime not readable for some programs. Binary files seems ok on the other hand. John Rye wrote: > Greg Stewart wrote: > > > > The text file structure in Unix is slightly different from that in windows. > > You'll noticed, occassionally, that if you open some Unix-created text files > > in Windows notepad/word you may see little blocks at line's end. > > > > I'm not sure that the "carriage return" is different in the oses, but they > > seem to handle the end-of-line differently. And I think (again, not sure) > > that there are a few different ways of handling this. > > > > --greg > > > > End of line character in Unix is a single linefeed character Hex 0A > > In Dos systems it is a carriage-return linefeed pair 0A 0D > > If you are to convert from one to the other you need to add or > remove the corresponding character - no mean feat if there is > a lot of data involved, text or otherwise. > > If you are dealing with binary encoded data - then you have an even > greater problem to deal with. > > Cheers > > -- > ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
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