Re: What's Wrong With Windows

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

hmm...I've never seen that happen with transitions between XP and
OS/X, but YMMV.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:05 PM, James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Michael Ryan wrote:
>  > Other OSes don't include DOS or Win95...
>
>  Actually, they do. Although for all intents and purposes, Lose95 is just
>  DOS with a protected-mode skin veneered over it.
>
>  But more to the point, I've seen WinDoze long filenames turn into
>  generated 8.3 names on MacOS, and (I think) Linux as well. To be fair,
>  I've also seen it happen on DOS-formatted media when going across the
>  MacOS 9/X transition.
>
>  --
>
>
> James H. H. Lampert
>  Touchtone Corporation
>
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