From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On 3/12/2023 12:50 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
      
   >      That is normal behavior for Windows.  I think there   
   > maybe some Windows add-on that lets Windows read Linux files   
   > but most usable Linux distributions can read the various   
   > Windows file systems.  My solution to interchange between the   
   > two systems is a partition in a Windows readable format where   
   > I copy files that I thought I wanted to use on Windows to the   
   > xchange partition.   Windows prefers to be blind to Linux.   
   >   
   > bliss - “Nearly any fool can use a GNU/Linux computer. Many do.”   
   >              After all here I am...  Again   
   >   
      
   Such a bleak world you live in.   
      
   I don't have a problem getting around.   
      
   I have a hex editor on Windows that really works.   
   I can burrow into /dev/sda1. I can burrow into /dev/sda (whole disk scan).   
   I can edit whole disks. For example, I just removed leftover GPT partition   
   tables from a disk, using the hex editor.   
      
   In addition, I have 7ZIP (Igor Pavlov), which also can burrow into anything.   
   It can burrow into an EXT4 and pull files out. It can burrow into a dd'ed   
   partition   
   and pull files out. It can take a .docx (or FOSS equivalent) and pull   
   the images you pasted into the document, out of the document for examination.   
   It can open a WIM. It can open a .vhd . And other virtual containers (with   
   an EXT4 inside). It can open an EXE file and you can look for icon resources   
   in there. it can open an MSI file (a Windows installer thing), but it does not   
   render the naming in a sensible manner (there is a separate tool written by   
   a USENET poster, for that).   
      
   There aren't too many formats I can't rip to bits.   
      
   So I don't know where you got the idea the world   
   was a limited place, with limited possibilities.   
   The world is your oyster. Enjoy.   
      
   I can set up portable Cygwin applications, without   
   keeping the Cygwin tree or being limited to keeping them   
   in the Cygwin tree. That's how I can run "disktype.exe"   
   on Windows -- it's a Cygwin port.   
      
   I was also doing things this way, when I was on a Mac G4   
   and had virtualization and foreign environments. All in   
   the name of "having many Swiss army knives". I had Linux   
   on the G4, back when Ubuntu had a PPC version of the LiveDVD.   
      
   When I was on a Sparc at work, I had SoftWindows for company.   
   When I was on a Mac, I had Connectix Virtual PC. The same Virtual PC   
   that was bought by Microsoft. That's why they bought Connectix   
   and chucked away their hardware business.   
      
   Windows 10 and Windows 11 have the bash shell, complete with graphics   
   capability (WSLg). On a regular basis, you can see a Ubuntu Firefox running   
   on my Windows Desktop via bash shell. There is a little Penguin icon   
   on the Firefox icon when I do that :-)   
      
       Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)