[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

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In article <p5ab9s$2i8$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>Den 2018-02-05 kl. 19:50, skrev VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG:
>> I have a client complaining about something because they use WEENDOZE.  I've
>> borrowed a WEENDOZE laptop so that I could see their complaint first hand.  I
>> have a file on a USB stick but I don't know how to find the USB stick when I
>> plug it in.
>> 
>
>I guess it is a Windows issue and that you have a Windows laptop.
>If not, you can disregard the following.
>
>
>It should pop-up as an extra disk right under C: (and D: and whatever
>other disks there are). Have you opened the Windows Explorer and checked?

Mac and Linus give me desktop icon when a USB drive is inserted. Nonesuch
with WEENDOZE.


>Depending on how the laptop has been setup, and what OS version it has,
>you might also get an automatic popup asking what you'd like to do
>with the USB stick. There should be one option to simply open up
>a Windows Explorer window pointing to the stick.
>
>But then, I do not see how you should be able to "see their complaint"
>from an USB memory stick? Have they written some documentation about it
>that is stored on the memory stick?

The complaint is that data I'm writing, which looks good when using OSX
or Linux displays oddly on WEENDOZE.



>And finaly, entering "how to see a usb memory stick windows" in Google
>gave a over 3 million hits. It would surprice me if not one of the
>first entries in the list would give you some hint also...

I did and most mention Explorer.  However, beyond a normal URL, I don't
understand how to specify a USB device and it would seem I'd need its
path regardless.
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