[vox-tech] File Permission Issue while downloading files from an ftp location

[Bill Kendrick]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:29:38PM +0530, karthikeyan.balasubramanian wrote:
> 
> I know that if he can tar and download those files, file  permission can be
> retained
> somehow he wants another solution.

Don't use FTP under Windows / VFAT?  :^)


Why can't he just download stuff while booted into Linux?
(So far as I know, Windows can't read/write ext2 or ext3 filesystems,
and VFAT doesn't support file permissions, and user/group ownership that
Unix filesystems do.)

-bill!

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