mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
my dillemma is simple i have psion 5 mx wich is an epoc type machine not only does it only work on windows as far as I know but I have to convert the files (the usual stuff!) sometimes a humen error happens and the files that I want to transfer to the linux drive has a few files in rtf..I have found that they are useless on unix unless you change them to text format.. I(i use word pad)... . the problem is I am stuck with a dozen rtf files on my linux drive and rather than delete and ocnvert and mount again I would like to know if there is a way to convert the rtf files on the linux drive itself to reguler windows text mode.. which I still hav e to strip of control charcters as I read in one of your threads today..!
1) is it possible to convert rtf files on linux itself without the due hassles
2) when I strip the characters I use the sed command and the CL/M command to delete the carraige returns.. how can apply this!!!!!!!
and will it work
(i got the idea from one of your threads today so please be patient)
mount -t vfat ascii /dev/hda1 /mnt ... will this work and will it strip carraige returns..
thanx moxxx68..
ps .. I wish I could put in a little more input but I am not as advanced as most of the users although I try!
The mount statement is for the filesystem. such as DOS, or FAT or ext2. I do not believe using ascii would do anything but give you an error. check the man page for the mount command. Check in the man mount area for conv=t[ext] text CRLF<-->NL translation is performed on all files
For converting rtf (Rich Text Format) you can try, Antiword or RTF to LaTeX converter or even Abiword
& UnRTF
will try thanx for your input!
thanx moxxx68!
Why don't you convert the files to text before sending them to you Unix machine?
Why don't you convert the files to text before sending them to you Unix machine?
but that odd rtf file is bound to get through again as they did before I figured out they won't work on unix... and i have bunch of them ready for data processing.. that would have to erased reconverted remounted and functionally I have to go through each of the rtf files to macth them up on the dos machine to actually figure which files i need.. since this whole process is really just starting.. so I thought there might be a way to convert them in one of those ways that I can only find out at site like this..
thanx moxxx68:D
moxxx6, i'm not sure that I follow.
better example)
I have a back up system that i download from with quite a few files.. when I installed windows recently I wasn't aware that RTF files don't translate.. rather than go through the whole serach and find file by file, convert to txt mode and then download again.. is there is a simple command that will conver t the files on the linux system directly..!
moxxx68 