Linux and Windows drive sharing

Ok, I have a laptop with a 30 gig drive in it. I partitioned it into 3 different drives. A 5 gig for windows, a 20 gig for sharing, and a 5 gig for linux. The first drive is an ntfs file system, the second (the 20 gig) is a fat32 file system, and the last is whatever linux uses (ext2 I think). The linux partition is divided into several different partitions and mounted a differnt points. (I think like /, swap, /home)

Anyway, in windows I can see the 20 gig just fine and write files to it and everything. In linux I can see the drive (mounted as /mnt/windows). I can see text files that I created in windows. I can edit them and see the changes.

My problem is that in linux when I create a file with returns (like a new line), in windows the returns show up as a little block character. So its one big line with these little block letters where the returns should be.

Is this what it is supposed to be like? lol. I didn’t think so. The whole reason for the big drive in the middle is so that I can code in windows and then view the files in linux to test them out. Thanks for any help you can provide!!

-Mr.K

Linux and windows use different line-endings. Remember, windows cares about whether or not a file is binary, *nix doesn't care either way. That's why you have to FTP text files in text mode to *nix servers, to fix the line endings.

Windows uses "\r\n" and *nix uses plain old "\n".

That's why you're seeing this problem.

Why not just code in linux and test in linux? There are a lot of very mature editors/IDEs out there.