Re: A few questions, mostly about Windows Explorer

From: Cyril N. Alberga (calberga_at_bellatlantic.net)
Date: 01/04/05

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    LVTravel wrote:
    > Answers in line that I can help with.
    >
    >
    >
    <snip>
    >
    >>2. On the network, using Windows Explorer, file names containing
    >>certain special characters are not correctly viewed from XP, but are
    >>from Win98. Due to this, copy/paste or drag-and-drop of these files
    >>will only work when initiated from the Win98 machine. The transfers
    >>will work in either direction, but cannot be done from the XP machine.
    >
    >
    > What special characters are recognized in a 98 box that are not recognized
    > in an XP machine?
    >
    >

    Two examples are (using codepage 850, keyboard set to US-International)
    any file name containing È (Uppercase E with grave accent) or ø
    (lowercase o with a slash through it). Both machines (XP and 98) allow
    you to create files using these characters in the file names, but if I
    use Windows Explore to look at the directories across the network the
    file names look correct (and act correctly) when the file is on the XP
    box and WE is running on the 98 box, but not in the reverse case. In
    that case the characters are showen as _ (underscore), and attempts to
    copy them, in either direction, from WE on the XP box fail.

    >
    >
    <snip>

    >
    >
    >>4. On XP in Windows Explorer a left mouse-click will not select the
    >>name of a directory in the "folder" window, although it does in the
    >>right-hand window. However, ALT-f ALT-m, (File - Rename) does this.
    >>How can I restore the (to me useful) behavior of Windows Explorer to
    >>that of Win98?
    >
    >
    > Don't really know what you mean here. On my machine when I left click on a
    > folder icon it highlights the icon and opens the folder in the right window
    > to show the folder's contents. If you want to rename a folder in the
    > folder window, right click on it and then click rename from the menu list
    > which drops down.
    >

    On 98, if I click once on a directory name in the left pane of WE it is
    selected. If, after a long enough pause that a double-click isn't
    detected, I click again it is equivalent to right-click/rename, and
    faster, with less mouse movement. However this doesn't work on XP.

    <snip>

    Thank you for your answers to the other questions.

    Cyril N. Alberga

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