On Monday, Nov 24, 2003, at 23:08 Europe/London,Phil Baldes wrote wrote in response to Shangara:
As the person who asked the original question my head is still spinning which is more than can be said for the pocket drive! Still to acheive a smooth cross platform access from Mac to PC as when one Microsoft system accepts the drive, another will not. Am now looking at formatting the drive on a Mac as MS/Dos drive: have managed to get Windwos XP to see the drive but not its contents so that is an advance I suppose.
One can only assume they mean Win95, Win98, WinMillenium, WinNT, Win2000,
since they've never acknowledged that the Mac exists...note the Windows
inability to read a Mac volume without buying additional software. The
Mac,
Hi Shangara
I suspect you are correct, although a quick look at the XP help files does
acknowledge that Mac exists, and even offers a service/tool called MacFile
to allow Mac and PC to share files (?) - oh and file and print servers for
Macintosh.
even offers a service/tool called MacFile to allow Mac and PC to share files (?)
That's great but the problem is that if one has a client who does not have XP one is stuffed. I am beginning to think that I will have to provide different means of accessing the drive dependent upon what system the client is running - all of which gets very messy.
Ian Jebbett wrote:
Does it really matter that a digital file or a hundred digital files take ten minutes or an hour to process on one machine or ten minutes and twenty seconds or an hour and ten minutes to process on a different machine!
IMHO yes it does Ian, very greatly! When you are handling 120 x 40Mb files machine speed is a vital component of ones work flow. The thread in question is based upon the simple fact that whilst as a Mac user I can take a PC formatted pocket drive and extract and work the files it is a nightmare trying to reverse that process. It seems that a Mac can easily talk to a PC but not vice versa and for some of us who use Macs for all sorts of reasons, the PC "indifference" is a major problem.
I am not saying that one is better than the other: merely that right now I have a major client with whom I am unable to communicate. They do not want myriad CD's - just a simple transfer of data and currently there seem to be such a myriad variety of PC operating systems out there that its like a computer Tower of Babel. As there is software availiable commercially to make Mac intelligible to PCs, it seems sad that Microsoft cannot incorporate it sensibly into their system.
Cheers
Mike St Maur Sheil
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