On 3/23/06, Steve Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maru dubshinki wrote: > > > Actually.... Linux can read NTFS, and fairly well. I once helped > > a friend set it up so he could listen to his music collection - > > but the real problem is that you have to go in via the command > > line (AFAIK), and Windows is *extremely* hostile to CLIs, what > > with all the special characters and spaces in the file names. > > Not to mention we couldn't seem to get tab completion to work, so > > it was manual copy-paste-quoting. Not fun. > > If this was from Linux, couldn't you have bundled together each > directory -- or even large directory tree -- you wanted to keep > into a tarball on the working Linux drive? That would have at > least saved a lot of individual file copying. > ______________________________________________________________________ > Steve Sloan ......... Huntsville, Alabama =========> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, yes we could have. But this was a dual-boot system (obviously), and there was barely enough space on the Linux partition for Ubuntu and a reasonable selection of extra programs. So.... ~Maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
