Windows and Linux text files problem

[MattRK]

Ok, I have a laptop with a 30 gig drive in it. I partitioned it into 3 different drives. A 5 gig for windows, a 20 gig for sharing, and a 5 gig for linux. The first drive is an ntfs file system, the second (the 20 gig) is a fat32 file system, and the last is whatever linux uses (ext2 I think). The linux partition is divided into several different partitions and mounted a differnt points. (I think like /, swap, /home)

Anyway, in windows I can see the 20 gig just fine and write files to it and everything. In linux I can see the drive (mounted as /mnt/windows). I can see text files that I created in windows. I can edit them and see the changes.

My problem is that in linux when I create a file with returns (like a new line), in windows the returns show up as a little block character. So its one big line with these little block letters where the returns should be.

Is this what it is supposed to be like? lol. I didn’t think so. The whole reason for the big drive in the middle is so that I can code in windows and then view the files in linux to test them out. Thanks for any help you can provide!!

-Mr.K

 

[sleipnir214]

It's because MS-DOS and Linux define a newline differently.

MS-DOS (and by succession, Win32) uses a carriage return then a linefeed to designate a newline. Linux uses only the linefeed. Your editor doesn't know how to react.


You will also see strangeness going the other way. If you create a file on the DOS side, then open the file using joe in Linux, you'll see M at the end of each line.

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[hads]

Here is an article about sharing files between O/Ss:

http://www.fbeedle.com/technote/03-01/etude15/etude15.html

You may also want to check out notetab

http://www.notetab.com/

I haven't used it but hear it is pretty good.
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[MrTom]

i think that wordpad can correctly handle unix style files.

 

[MattRK]

Thanks for all your help. I found that KWrite (kde's advanced text editor) has an option to do dos, linux, or mac line endings. So i just chose dos. I also found that textpad can do the same on windows. So i'm good from both ends.

Thanks again for your help.

-Mr.K