Her house is on my way home kinda. I'll check it out tonight if she is home.
Thanks for feeling my pain, lol.

On 8/9/06, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I know what you are talking about as far as the Data Fork is concerned.
> A standard CD won't cause a problem. Download the file, and burn it to a
> CD and then copy it over and run the installer.
>
> Basically you could transfer files around, but the Mac stored meta data
> used by the OS in a separate hidden file called the resource fork.
> Windows read the extension and used the OS to determine what to do. Macs
> on the other hand read the resource fork.
>
> You could move the files around, if you had a FAT disk you could copy
> the files over to it, and the read the data portion on your windows pc.
> You might have needed to rename the file, but it would work. You would
> just ignore the resource fork files created by the Mac.
>
> OS 8 came out in July of 1997, and the last update was in October of
> 1999, Apple currently lists the product as Historic, not supported.
>
> That version of Netscape is based on Mozilla 1.0.2 and came out in early
> 2003. I doubt it will be able to do much either.
>
> I don't remember where it keeps that stuff. I would be interested to
> know if it at least a G3. If it isn't a G3, good luck :)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 7:48 PM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: Re: stupid mac questions
> >
> > nope, was rather boggled that she was really right about what was
> > happening
> > and hadn't slept for a couple of days when I was over there. I can
> take a
> > look for that the next time I go back. I'll try the netscape version
> > though,
> > thanks. Do you remember the thing I am talking about with the data
> fork? I
> > think it may have been that the Mac wil read files saved in w32 but
> once
> > you
> > do anything with it on a mac it won't transfer back -- in which case I
> can
> > download this for her. But I am not sure. Where does the MAc hide its
> OS
> > info, do you know? I couln't find it in the apple menu.
> >
> > Dana
> >
>
>
> 

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