Re: [WinMac] Illegal characters [WAS: NT server and Mac]


Leonard Rosenthol(leonardr[at]Adobe.COM)
Tue, 24 Nov 1998 19:31:57 -0500


At 5:19 PM -0500 11/24/98, Dan Schwartz wrote:
> Beginning with a period, i.e. ".sony" -- This is reserved for
> Mac driver
> files;

        That hasn't been a problem on the Mac since MacOS 7.0. They
added some new stuff to the OS to work around the problem - so unless
you are running REALLY old (68K) software, you will never encounter
this.

LDR
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