[G4] Truncated Filenames from Windows? - off topic but curious

[Steve O'Neill]

Anne Keller-Smith wrote:

> I had a couple suggestions, among which was to download the files
> to her laptop, running Windows 98, if there was enough hard drive
> space. She said this wasn't possible because the hard drives are
> a different standard.

No, it should work fine, and it should be able to keep the long filenames.

> I have felt stupid on occasion giving advice to Windows folks,
> because they can't do quite a bit, or at least I don't know how
> to do it.

Being a recent "switcher", I found I had to resist doing things I would 
have had to do in windoze, and instead let the Mac do it if it even 
needed doing at all.

> The other question, which is on topic, is whether there are
> any similar glitches moving from OS9 to X. There haven't
> seemed to be any, from my limited experience going back
> and forth between Dad's machine running OS X.1.1 and mine
> running 9.2.1. Files go back and forth just fine.

I have 9.2.2 and X.1.5, and altough I prefer X, I have to go back and 
forth; it's pretty painless.