I am using a lot of golden-cd's in jolliet (Win95-long)
format. After upgrading my kernel from 2.0.31 to 2.0.36
i can see the long filenames and everything works just fine.
Best regards,
Yves
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On Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:52:32 zentara wrote:
>
>Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:
>>
>> Greetings fellow Linux users!!
>>
>> I have a couple of questions to ask........
>>
>> 1. Is it possible to store files lets say DOS/WIN/WIN95 files using their
>> conventions (ie, filename, and length) on a ext2 partition?! What I am trying
>> to say is that can anyone upload a windows file to my linux box and then
>> retrieve it at a later date without the file being corrupted?!
>>
>As long as you have vfat compiled into your kernel, you shouldn't
>have any problem. The only glitch might be long filenames if you
>don't have vfat. Linux dosn't corrupt files, (as some other os's
>are known to do) :-)
>I send files back and forth between fat16, fat32, and ext2 partitions
>without problem.
>You will need to keep in my the carriage-return-new-line problem
>in text files. Linux has a couple of utilities called dos2unix and
>unix2dos. For example, if you download, or create a perl script with
>windows,
>then try to transfer it over to linux and run it, you will get alot
>of errors if you don't run it thru dos2unix first.
>If you are uploading alot of text files to your linux box, then
>transferring
>them to your windows system, it might be better to zip them up first.
>
>
>> 2. What would be the best replacement for the standard ftp daemon? I don't
>> necessarily want the most features. I used to use Serv-U FTP under win95, and
>> if I can have something of that nature and of that power and capability, I
>> will be GLADLY happy!!
>>
>
>Wu-ftp is pretty good under linux.
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