At 12:16 AM 7/11/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote:
>What I
>really hate, however, is that certain punctuation characters which were
>available to me in Mac filenames are off limits in Windows filenames!

I think this is in keeping with the long tradition of reserved characters.
That's why some Mac filenames don't work in URLs.

>In desperation I've started using the upside-down question mark (alt-0191)
>but I'm not at all happy about it.

Just be careful with those characters. Some applications crash when trying
to open files with other than alphanumeric characters; it's a common bug in
applications whose heritage dates from 8.3 filenames.

>(It
>used to bother me that the stuff on the desktop insists on lining up from
>the top left, when I'd rather move some of them over to the bottom right,
>but I've pretty much gotten over that.)

You can reset the desktop any way you like. Right-click on the desktop and
uncheck "Arrange Icons | Auto Arrange"

Dennis




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