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to: MARK LEWIS
from: OLE MADSEN
date: 1998-03-16 22:02:00
subject: valid netbios names

mark lewis wrote in a message to all:
 ml> i have a win95 machine on my network that has a - (hyphen) in it's
 ml> name. ie: box-42  is this a valid netbios name for that machine??
I should think.
 ml> in fact, in netscape/2, i am unable to save anything to a mapped
 ml> drive on any of the win95 machines... NONE of those machiens are
 ml> using FAT32. this OS/2 box is all HPFS.
My experience:
When saving to a non-HPFS partition or a mapped drive(FAT16), you must follow 
the 8+3 filenaming-convention _strictly_ ! I haven't tried to save to a 
machine using FAT32 ....
mvh Ole Madsen 
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