Re: Desktop Icons

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Rich Hare <rhare@mich.com> wrote:

>ALL RIGHT!
>Here is the definitive answer:
>It is clearly something with a disk written to by Win95 MSDOS.
>If I format a 1.44 disk with Prodos, the finder will show the icon.
>If I format a 1.44 disk with MSDOS from WINDOWS 95, the finder will show
>the blank disk.
>BUT
>If I format a 1.44 disk with MSDOS and write ANY FILE, even one with a
>short file name (AE.shk), the finder will not show the icon.
>
>OK, Now I know "what's in, and what's out".
>
>Thanks to all.

Try this.  Format a 1.44 disk with MSDOS from Win 95.
Write the same file you did to the disk except do in
this case instead of typing AE.shk for the file name,
hit your caps lock key.  Then type AE.SHK.  You'll
see it go in all caps.  Press return to make the file
name stick.  Now Win 95 gives you a fake looking
file name "Ae.shk" but it is only cosmetic.  In reality,
it is AE.SHK, an old MS-DOS style file name with no
case sensitivity or long file name.

You see, VFAT is also used for mixed upper/lower
case file names.

With AE.SHK on the MSDOS disk, your BlueDisk
and PC floppy drive on the IIGS will now read the
1.44MB MSDOS disk fine.