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From: tbaird@lsv-is.lifescan-can.com (Tim Baird)
Subject: Re: Downloading FreeBSD onto an NT platform
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The file system that data is stored on is not a issue - most of the time.
The fact that you are saving these files onto a non-BSD system is usually
meaningless unless the filenames have been truncated/case changed (DOS loves
to do this) or additional dots are changed to under-scores...eg.
foo.blah.hooey.tar.gz ---> foo_blah_hooey_tar_gz .  Other problems arrise if
there are certain characters that are valid for filename descriptors in one
system that are reserved in the other.  


>I use Netscape NAVIGATOR 2.0 on an NT Workstation 3.5. I think I 
>can't download unix files since they will be converted into DOS 
>FAT files making the downloaded files useless?
>Am I correct? If not can anybody tell me more about how to 
>download it this way?
>
>wkr
>
>Jan  Brosius email jan.brosius@club.innet.be
>
>