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You want to rebuild the desktop file on that floppy..bet it's corrupted.
The easiest way to do it is to mount it on a PC, set your view to show all
files, and delete the Desktop DB and Desktop DF (IIRC) folders from the
floppy, then remount it on the Mac.
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Bob Heffner wrote:
> I have a Word file that was created on a Windows PC and transferred
> to a Mac via a PC formatted floppy disk.
>
> The content of the file is just fine but..
> the filename shows up on a PC (and Virtual PC 2.0.1 on the Mac) as:
> webct_panel.doc
> the filename shows up on the Mac as: webct_tip.doc
>
> What's happening here?
> I'm accustomed to truncated filenames on both platforms but this has
> me confused.
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