Re: The Holy Grail of MacOS/Windows compatability

Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:12:57 -0400

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Rob,

So are you saying it wouldn't be good enough to run a standalone
application on a file server once in a while? Because you could run
something like NameCleaner and use AppleScript to make it into a "cron"
type job.
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
> [mailto:winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Simons
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 1998 3:26 PM
> To: winmac@xerxes.frit.utexas.edu
> 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?
> Any programmers out there? I assume it would be a quick
> extension since
> the Mac already maps out the color character from Mac file
> names. So it
> would be a case of adding to the existing code.
> Thanks!
>
>
> Rob Simons
> Toolbox Studios, Inc.
> 3346 Cadbury Dr.
> San Antonio, TX 78247
>
> 210-490-6848
>
> My comparison of the G3/300 versus the Pentium II 300 can be found at
> www.toolbox.net/300vs300
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> "That which does not kill us, only makes us stronger."
>
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