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You should look at NameCleaner and CrossPlatform. The url is
http://www.sigsoftware.com. I use them to prepare cross-platform
Mac/Unix/Windows CD's.
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> From: Romeyn Prescott
> Reply To: winmac@iffy.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 3:54 PM
> To: winmac@iffy.com
> Subject: [WinMac] File migration hair-pulling
>
> Hi all,
>
> In my position I (thankfully infrequently) have to assist in platform
> migrations (Mac -> Windows or Windows -> Mac). Lately (and sadly)
> I've had to do quite a few Mac -> Windows conversions. I use MacLink
> Plus translators to groom their data files. It does a wonderful job
> of dealing with FILE names, but sadly does NOTHING to check the
> validity of resultant bound-for-Windowsland FOLDER names. You be
> amazed (or maybe you wouldn't) how many Windows-illegal characters I
> run into. There's the expected "/", but I can do a Sherlock search
> for those. But what is MADDENING in nested folders containing
> hundreds of files is anything with a trailing space in the
> folder/file name which Windows positively hates.
>
> Have anyone here ever dealt with this, and if so, how have YOU dealt
> with it? I just plod through it all manually making changes. But it
> sucks. Almost anything has to be better!
>
> IS there anything?
>
> Parenthetically yours,
> ...ROMeyn
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