[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Monday, 5 February 2018 21:25:39 UTC, Jan-Erik Soderholm  wrote:
> Den 2018-02-05 kl. 20:39, skrev VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG:
> > 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....
> 
> "Windows Explorer" (the "file manager").
> *Not* "Internet Explorer" (the web browser).
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Of course, since you are using the wrong tool.
> 
> B.t.w, what version of Windows are you using?
> 
> What is the actual issue? Maybe you can make a reproducer
> (without real data) file that anyway can look at?
> 
> Or just get someone, who is a little more up-to-date on todays
> standard IT environments, to help you.

Fwiw, widely available non-MS browsers (e.g. Chrome, 
Firefox, etc) can be used to explore a filesystem on a 
Window box, after a fashion. E.g. use file://C:/ as the 
url and see what happens. Same goes for USB sticks, CD
drives, etc. No idea if this approach works with any or
all of the common MS-supplied browsers.

But in this particular situation, that's probably not a
helpful route to addressing the unerlying problem.