Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
I have a scenario where I'll be working on formatting a novel in an office where the computer is XP and the download for Sigil for that computer is from the Sigil site. Then at my apartment I will have a Xubuntu (v.13-10) where (I haven't done this yet) I will most likely be getting my Sigil from somebody's repository.
Now when I take the .epub of my novel from the Sigil on the XP computer to the Sigil on the Xubuntu computer can I trust that they are exactly the same, and that the novel will be exactly the same from one (and back and forth) to the other?
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Inside Sigil: YES
Outside Sigil: Not always
Unix, Linux file systems are
Case Sensitive: << This is the biggest difference Windows users have to learn
Myfile.EPUB
Myfile.epub
myfile.epub
myfile.EpUb
all 100 variations in capitalization are 1 file(name) in windows
AND
100 file(name)s in *nix
If you open a terminal session in Linux (Windows calls it 'a command prompt'), there are more
(Linux | Windows)
ls dir
cat cp
rm del
mv move
and some that are the same
cd
date
exit
and a huge list that windows never could do
here is a small win-lin
list from CENTOS :
https://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/r...-doslinux.html