J. Grant wrote:
Hi bascule, PlugHead and W. Kasberg,Also, Windows file names permit only one period (after which is the extension), whereas Linux files can have an unlimited number of periods. This means that when Windows has to handle a Linux file, it renames it so that all the periods except the last are changed to underscores. After that there is no way of telling whether an underscore was a period or an underscore. Important information is thereby permanently lost.
PlugHead you are correct, linux "inteligently" maps the limited FAT readonly/system/hidden/archive to its attempt at the unix equiv.
Thus "system" is root only, "hidden" is root too (with no read access to dirs i think) "readonly" does not have read flag for anyone. Or some variation on this, i forget, i only use fat for legacy stuff now.
Due to the limited options on fat some of the files will not be mapped entirely perfectly. This means that winnt, program files etc can only be viewed by root.
So never use Windows to download Linux files, period!
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