At 12:56 AM 06/01/98 -0700, Kathy wrote:
>Floppies from wintel machines with long file names get truncated on the mac
>pre OS8.1 -- don't ask why, I don't know why -- somehow the mac could only
>read the "DOS" part of the name. The long file name on Win95 is an ALIAS --
>the DOS name still exists and is the "real" name.
Thanks to everyone who weighed in on the "transferring long file names from
PC to Mac" issue - that got quite a response! I was aware that Win95 long
names are only 'pseudo' long ;-)
It seems that this was a pre Mac OS v8.1 issue and that it has now been
resolved. That's a relief!
Barry <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web Design & Development�- Online Marketing <http://www.ToTheWeb.com>
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