RW> *** Quoting Mark Lewis to Rich Wonneberger dated 03-25-98 ***
>> pointed out that i must ensure 8.3 naming which i have done to no
>> avail... the main reason why i want to save files on the Win95 boxes is
>> because i'd like to put the Win95 files i download over there and not
>> "risk corrupting my OS/2 box" OB-)
 RW> Last thing I can think of, are you using 8.3 for any path's??
 RW> I would think a longer machine name would be ok if its all
 RW> text/numeric (no spaces, multi period's.  I've had funny
 RW> prob's with W95 & spaces in the path and/or multi periods  (ie
 RW> filename.ext.duh)..
 RW> After that, I'm outa ideas..
simple netbios names... only one machine has a '-' (dash) in the name... all 
names are 8 characters or less, no dots...
the target directory is on a Win95 box and is called wintmp...
i just tried this again by accessing my own ftp server... choose to download 
the latest fidonet news letter (definitely an 8.3 name ) and choose to 
save it on the K:\wintmp directory (K: being the mapped drive on the win95 
box) and got a "Unable to write to file" error... i also just noticed that 
there was a volumn label on that drive... i've removed it and tested again... 
still failed so apparently the volumn label bug is not part of this 
oblem...
i even tried to save to the root dir on that mapped drive and that also 
failed... as did trying to save the file to any of the OS/2 boxes... 
guess i'll just have to remember to go to one of the Win95 boxes to download 
win95 garb^H^H^H^H schtuff...
)\/(ark
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