[Discussion] Sending Files to Win2000 PC

[Carl Gehr]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 19:12:47 -0800 (PST), brueggemail-list at yahoo.com
wrote:

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>--- On Thu, 1/1/09, Brian Grawburg <grawburg at myglnc.com> wrote:
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>> I need to send files with long file names from an OS/2
>> machine to a WIN200K machine.
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>PKZIP will correctly encode the filenames in OS/2 and restore
>them in Windoze (and vice versa).  I find it easier to sneakernet
>files this way than figure out how to get the two to network.

I would agree.  But, if sneakernet is not practical, try sending the
ZIP via FTP.  That's very easy on the OS/2 side.  I don't know 'Doze,
but I wouldn't think it would be nearly as hard as trying to actually
network the systems.