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Access telex.json on SD-card with Windows-PC

A normal Windows-PC can not access the the Raspberry Pi (Linux) partition because it is formatted as ext4 (or btrfs). But the BOOT-partition is formatted as FAT32 which Windows can read and write. The idea is to move the configuration file telex.json to the BOOT-partition and replace the original file with a symlink that the piTelex program can access it.

sudo mkdir /boot/config/
sudo mv /home/pi/piTelex/telex.json /boot/config/
ln -s /boot/config/telex.json /home/pi/piTelex/telex.json

With this change the Windows user sees a config folder on the SD-card and can change the telex.json with notepad (or any better editor like notepad++)