[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

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In article <0daa9f86-3ab1-4655-afef-c49b97439542 at googlegroups.com>, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk writes:
>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.

I tried every letter.  No luck.  One file on a small USB stick.  Yes, FAT-32.

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