[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

[Paul Sture]

On 2018-02-05, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> 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.

What format is the USB stick? FAT32 is pretty cross-compatible. ExFAT
removes the partition & file size limits of FAT32 but you might need to
verify that all 3 platforms support it.

>
>>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.

Line endings, code set (Windows), or UTF-8 vs UTF-16 are the usual
culprits.

>
>>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.

If you can get to the Windows command prompt, try D: then E: then
F: ...?  I wish I was joking when I wrote that :-(

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