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to: MARK LEWIS
from: OLE MADSEN
date: 1998-03-23 19:26:00
subject: valid netbios names

mark lewis wrote in a message to Ole Madsen:
 OM> You know better, yes - great for you, but does that cure the
 OM> problem you have ?
 ml> no it doesn't and you were only trying to cover the possibility
 ml> that i may have been running FAT32...
Below this, you will see exactly what i wrote: (cut and paste from my 
original 1. reply )
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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 ....
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 OM> Sorry that I tried to help.
 ml> no, don't be... i'm sorry that my words were misinterpreted... your
 ml> help is appreciated...
I am sorry - for having been a little harsh in my previous reply ;-), but 
please read again beetwen the "===" and the "===". I'm only telling you my 
own experience - no words of wisdom, and most of all; no assumptions about 
what you have tried or not tried ... 
mvh Ole Madsen 
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