Mac files restored to Windows 98 PC?

2000-12-04 Thread Owen Watson
I was converting someone from Mac to PC and was wondering whether Mac files, when restored by Retro 4.3 to a W98 client, would have the illegal chars filtered out. I can deal with the usual /?* by pre-processing but there's some other chars that seem to choke PCs that I can't get rid of. --

Re: Mac files restored to Windows 98 PC?

2000-12-04 Thread Philip Chonacky
Illegal file names will be converted to an 8.3 equvilant, usually with a "~1" at the end of the file name. I was converting someone from Mac to PC and was wondering whether Mac files, when restored by Retro 4.3 to a W98 client, would have the illegal chars filtered out. I can deal with the

Retrospect 4.3 AppleScripts

2000-12-04 Thread Mark
Retrospect Experts: Being a complete AppleScript novice, I ask your indulgence in answering what *should* be a fairly simple question. The documentation for the "FileMaker Pro Server Toggle" AppleScript that is included with Retrospect 4.3 refers specifically to to FileMaker 3.0. The

Re: Retrospect 4.3 AppleScripts

2000-12-04 Thread Philip Chonacky
The first time the applescript is launched, you will be asked to locate the Applicatio "Filemaker Pro Server". Direct the Applescipt to the correct application and from then on it will remember (the script creates it's own alias to the application) Hope this helps /philip Retrospect

BSOD with Retrospect 5.1 Server

2000-12-04 Thread Ben Eastwood
I get a reproducable blue screen on a compaq 1600 R with two smart array controllers (221 and 3200) both controlling RAID 5 arrays. The crash happens everytime I do the device scan. I think it's related to the RAID controllers, but I'm not sure. Has anyone seen this behavior before? Machine is

Re: Retrospect 4.3 AppleScripts

2000-12-04 Thread Philip Chonacky
I doubt it, I can't confirm for sure what the exact command is, because I don't have the actual application, but a force quit is not usually part of the event dictionary. More likely a regular quit. Does it really tell the application to "force quite"? that doesn't seem like it would be to

Re: Retrospect 4.3 AppleScripts

2000-12-04 Thread Philip Chonacky
Funny, when I open it, I get: >on RetrospectStart given autoLaunchBoolean:autolaunched > if autolaunched is true then > set kRetroAutoLaunched to true > tell application "FileMaker Pro" to «event FMPAFQUI» > end if > return true >end RetrospectStart What application did you point your script

RE: BSOD with Retrospect 5.1 Server

2000-12-04 Thread Ben Eastwood
I called Dantz and they quickly solved the problem for me. In the Retrospect directory (C:\program files\dantz\retrospect) is a file called aspichk.exe. Run this to find out which version (if any) of aspi is installed on your server. Mine had none. ASPI stands for Advanced SCSI Programming

How Long does this take for you?

2000-12-04 Thread Ben Eastwood
I have questions for y'all: When running a backup operation of a LOCAL disk (RAID 5 Array, actually)to a DLT7000 drive, I noticed that the Performance reported varied widely, from a high of 450MB/min to a low of 13 MB/min, and the "Time Remaining" would jump around pretty much based on this.

Re: Retrospect 4.3 AppleScripts

2000-12-04 Thread Mark
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Philip Chonacky wrote: Funny, when I open it, I get: tell application "FileMaker Pro" to «event FMPAFQUI» What application did you point your script to? Because the FileMaker 5 server is currently under heavy user load, I have not yet directed the script to