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Article #586Re: PC to PC data cable?
From: Chris Kennington - newshound
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:00
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In article <01bd6bc9$7e7d95c0$0100b51f@dbqa.demon.co.uk>
hamster@nospam.demon.co.uk "Tom Bird" writes:
"> "Be careful with Interserve and Interlink !!!
"> "
"> "If one of your computers use a FAT32 (win95b) hard drive and the other
"> "computer a Fat16 (dos 6.22 or older) you could encounter very serious
"> "problems: FORMATTING your Fat32 Hard Drive! (interserve and interlink
"> "does not recognize FAT32).
">
"> Afaik, they don't recognize long filenames either; perhaps one
"> of the gurus would like to expound on the implications of this?
"> But do you mean that Interxxxx would actually call FORMAT without
"> asking you?
"
"I have attempted the same thing - Intersvr wouldn't have it.
"
"No damage arose though - there was a M$ workaround - that didn't work
"either.
This post is potentially very interesting; could we have some
chapter and verse? I am particularly interested to know about
situations in which Interxxx could cause damage; and in the way
in which it fails to work in other situations.
Chris K.
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