Windows users can sometimes be a little blind to the fact that not
everything acts like Windows. A perfect example of this is when they send
Windows UNC (Universal Naming Convention) paths to Mac users. They expect
the Mac folks to be able to click the link in an E-mail message and go
straight to a folder on a file server.
What are UNC paths? Those are sometimes short but often long links that look
like this:
\\server\Projects\Remodeling\
A UNC path starts of with a set of two backslashes (often called
whack-whack), which means "everything after this is on the network, not on
my computer". The whack-whack is followed by a server name followed by
another whack followed by one or more folder names separated by even more
whacks.
Unlike what the name implies, these paths are hardly "universal".
WinShortcutter from Lobotomo Software, however, will enable Mac users who
work in a Windows world to follow these whack-whack style links.
Continue reading at
<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2009/05/easily_open_windows_unc_paths_in_ent
ourage_using_winshortcut.html> or <http://tinyurl.com/cw678m>.
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bill
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