Re: Question on networking two PCs ....

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From: Hugh Maisey
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 00:00

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In article <323463bc.1861466@news.demon.co.uk>, Matt West
<matt@tdraft.demon.co.uk> writes
>I have a Pentium PC running Win95 and an older 486 running Win3.11.  I
>want to network these while keeping their own operating systems.
>
>Can this be done with the Windows software or will I need some other ?
>
>How will the 486 machine cope with reading the hard disk in the
>Pentium that has long filename and directory names ?
>
Both Win95 and WfWg have (effectively) peer-to-peer capabability. The
WfWg machine will see long filenames as nnnn~1 (if you see what I mean).
If you want to see exactly, run File Manager on Win95.....
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Hugh Maisey
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