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Re: lingua franca, was email format, mac -> PC file conv.


1) Lots of the files have "!" as the first character of the filename
even though they were not saved that way. This also screws up the
filename if the full 8 characters.ext are used. The "!" rolls the
last character of the name off in to the bit bucket and really
screws things up. Why is this?


That's the way the file names are truncated, which is different from
the way Win95 truncates file names. If you can get your Mac and
Win95/NT users to use 7+3 file (not 8+3) names from the start, then
all will be well. (That is, I agree, a burden.) Or, transfer files
via a path other than floppy. For example, if you have macs and PCs
on a Novell network then the long file names will be visible to all.


*Only* if that support has been specifically enabled on the Novell
server, which it by default is not. This may require some sweet
talking to the sys admin people.

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