Yes, you can do that safely. The only thing you might have to change is that
anything on a VFAT partition seems to automatically be made executable. So if
you don't want it to be executable, you can type "chmod a-x the_file_name".
> This is probably a silly question. When downloading linux/unix files (i.e.
> a .tar.gz or .rpm files) from the internet, is it safe to save them in a
> Win95 directory? Is there anything I should do to protect/preserve file
> attributes/permissions?
>
> I've got to do this on my home machine as I've got a Winmodem (I know, time
> to get a real modem) and I'd like to confirm that I can update my Mandrake
> distro safely.
>
> Any help/guidance would be appreciated.
>
>
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> one has not himself the skill to rightly mismanage.
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>
> Registered Linux User #180033
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Anthony
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