Re: Download Linux tar files to DOS and Linux native partitions

[Tyler Nally <tnally iquest net>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Dom Bekarge wrote:
> I want to download WordPerfect 8 for Linux from the <linux.corel.com> web site.
> They look like tar / gzip files.
> 
> Can I download the files using Win98 / Netscape 4.5 to a DOS partition,
> then later use RH6 Linux to copy or to install the files to the Linux native partition?

Yeah.... you can use whatever pleases you to retrieve any file from the 'net.
It's just that ta .tar.gz file wouldn't be something that I'd want to
decompress and de-archive on a non-Unix style OS.  As long as you can basically
retrieve the file and copy it around once you get it o.k. it doesn't really
make any difference *how* you originally retrieved the downloaded file.

The other thing I'd be careful about is moving the file to a DOS partition of
some sort that will only support 8 character names (maximum) and 3 character
extensions.  If the DOS partition can't support loooooooong filenames then
I'd forget about putting it on that particular partition as well.

Tyler
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