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Re: Linux information + some questions...

Posted by James Durbin on 1999-04-21

Frank Hale wrote:
> If you want to access your Windows partitions from linux then you better
> leave it as FAT. I am not sure if linux can read NTFS filesystems or
> not. It may be able to and others may have more information on it. I
> know for a fact that you can access FAT partitions from Linux which is
> nice because say you don't get your Internet account setup you can
> always use windows and have linux be able to get access to files that
> you download.

As far as I know there is a verson of Linux that can read NTFS but not
write to it... I remember reading it somewhere but don't know enough
about Linux to know whither it's part of the kernel or part of a GNU
package..

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first off I'm trying to make an antagram creator...  (yes I know there's
a website that will do this for me, but I want to do it myself)  I've
decided to use the Linux operating system to do this so I can create
simple programs which might become useful later on and so I can get the
hang of pipes and/or shell scripts... and compiling C using GCC and
makefiles... (I'm used to Borland's nice IDE for Turbo C)  basicaly
it'll be a great learning experence for me... :)

I just would like to know a few things:

Question 1:  Does RedHat 5.2 come with a file containing words like a
dictionary w/o definitions?  If not where can I get one?

Question 2:  Does anyone know of an algorithm to take an array and
finding all the possible combinations for the array?  ex. finding all
the possibilities of 123:  123, 132, 213, 231, 312, 321

I tried to figure this out for myself, but I could only get my algorithm
to work on arrays of 3 and 4 elements and would screw up on any array
larger than that...  any suggestions would be appreciated....  Psudocode
should be good enough for me... :)

Thanks..
 
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