Re: The Holy Grail of MacOS/Windows compatability
Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:06:39 -0400
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From: Thomas Roth [mailto:tomroth@wfubmc.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: The Holy Grail of MacOS/Windows compatability
>From: Robert Simons
>Subject: The Holy Grail of MacOS/Windows compatability
>
>I've been looking for an extension to map out the "bad" characters from
>Mac file names to make life more cross-platform friendly. (For example:
>something to keep my Mac users from typing a "/" in a file name. NT
>doesn't like that.) Any ideas?
Other then a slap on the wrist you may want to look at some Mac
utilities. I've got two programs downloaded from the Internet. One is
called DOS-Namer and the other which I use a lot and does a number of
things is called Drop*Rename. The files have to be dropped onto these
apps and then the program does its magic. They do not prevent the Mac
users from typing Mac only characters as you've suggested.
The biggest problem I have are Mac users who don't put a three letter
extension on their files so even though it may be a cross-platform file
format the Windows computers haven't any idea what the file is.
Photoshop can automatically add the three letter extension and I wish
some of the other apps would take notice and do the same.
I use both Macs and Windows NT all day long and so I'm bouncing back and
forth between the two. Still like the Mac best for my graphics work
though.
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