[WinMac] Re: Burning CD on PC w/ Mac charset in filenames

Matti Haveri(matti.haveri[at]sjoki.uta.fi)
Sat, 30 Oct 1999 23:12:10 +0200

"Changhsu P. Liu" <cpl874@optimum.com>:
>
>If you intend to have files accessed on PC, don't use any illegal names (to
>Windows). I once made a mistake to put important files/folders with a *
>ending, and all of them were not openable on PC that I had to make another
>CD with correction. It's strange that PC doesn't allow "?" for a filename
>which is a very good symbol for files unknown... I can understand why "/"
>or "\" is not allowed but I cannot understand some other other symbols not
>being allowed (e.g., <, >, :, |, *).

So characters \/:*?<> are invalid in Windows (95) but what about High-ASCII
8-bit characters?

I've noticed that some 8-bit characters like äö (a or ö with umlaut) are OK
in hybrid CDs (made with Toast 3.5.6).

However, some 8-bit characters like the bullet "*" don't transliterate from
Mac to Win. I can move and copy these files with Win 95 but if I try to
open them from the desktop (or other folder) to MS Word 7.0 there is an
error 1177 "filename or path is not valid". I can open them from Word,
however. Weird.

TIP: How to copy long filenames from ISO Win CDs? A: Read the CD with
Virtual PC and drag the files to the Mac side. If the filename is <31
characters, VPC 3.0 gives the correct type/creator to the file. (I just
noticed that if the filename is >32 characters, it is not possible to copy
those files to a shared folder, only directly to the Mac side - smells like
a bug...).

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Matti Haveri <matti.haveri@sjoki.uta.fi> <http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/>






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