[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

[DaveFroble]

VAXman- @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.
> 
> 
>> 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.

Think of weendoze explorer as "the computer".  It lets you see the storage on 
the system.

You don't mention which version of weendoze.  It will be a bit more obscure on 
the newer junk, 7, 8, 10.

As Jan Erik mentioned, weendoze will usually mount the USB stick when inserted.

You don't mention what type of file is involved.  For a text file, NotePad will 
do.  Just right click on the filename, select open or "open with".


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