On 16 Nov 2005 at 17:18, Darcy James Argue wrote: > I found and loaded the DLL online, and put it in the VPC shared > folder (the only way to transfer files between the VPC side and the > Mac side). However, switching to VPC, the file doesn't show up. I > suspect there's some kind of Win98 setting that makes DLL files > invisible -- is my intuition correct? If so, how do I turn that off?
I know you found it, but just for the benefit of any other Mac user who might find themselves wandering through the strange territory of Windows, here's the explanation. You control what shows up by changing your FOLDER OPTIONS. There is a tool for this in Control Panel, but also in any instance of Windows Explorer, you can get to the same place from the Tools menu. The first tab allows you to get rid of the Active Desktop crap (called Web view), by choosing Windows Classic (though perhaps that was *not* available in Win98, only in Win2k/XP). On the VIEW tab, I always set these three settings differently from the (stupid) defaults: 1. Hidden Files and Folders -> SHOW 2. Hide file extensions for known file types -> OFF (i.e., unchecked) 3. Hide protected operating system files -> OFF None of these default settings is helpful, and are to blame for many of the viruses/trojans that have spread in email by using double file extensions (i.e, with the HIDE FILE EXTENSIONS on its default setting of ON, a file named MyDocument.txt.exe will look like MyDocument.txt, when it's actually an executable; this should be self-evidently dangerous), and having the setting ON also makes it hard to properly name certain files in certain extended FILE SAVE dialogs. You can easily end up with double extensions without realizing it if the dialog is not properly designed (and many of them are not). I would only leave the 1st and 3rd settings above at their defaults for a GUEST account on a public PC. And there is no utility for anyone at all in having the 2nd setting at its default value. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
