Re: XP install on a network

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From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospamcableone.net)
Date: 04/21/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:50:16 -0600

Greetings --

    Based on what you've quoted, I'd suggest throwing that book away -
there's no telling what other nonsense is included.

Bruce Chambers 

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"Patty" <patty15NOSPAM@softhome.net> wrote in message 
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> but he goes on to say (and I
> am quoting here) "The same is true of a network.  If one machine 
> uses NTFS
> and another uses FAT or FAT32, the NTFS machine will be able to 
> access FAT
> and FAT32 files, but the FAT and FAT32 machine will not be able to 
> access
> the files on the NTSF machine."  So is he wrong here, or am I not
> understanding something? I need to be able to access files on all 
> the
> machines, or at least transfer information back and forth.  I 
> couldn't find
> anything on microsoft's xp support page to clarify this.  Thanks.
>
> Patty
>

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