Re: Uploading to Asimov

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Andy McFadden" <fadden@fadden.com> wrote in message 
news:ffRJe.8128$p%3.35366@typhoon.sonic.net...
> In comp.sys.apple2 BluPhoenyx <bluphoenyx-@-earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> What kind of PC do you have. I have no problem with the double dot.
>>
>> Me either, using Windows XP s2 and FireFox. IIRC, he runs Win9x/ME which
>> may have problems with these names.
>
> DOS may do strange things to the filenames, making them awkward to deal
> with if you use DOS-based emulators.  Of course, the same applies to
> anything other than 8+3 names.  AFAIK, Win95 and later handled filenames
> with multiple dots without problems.
>
> I wouldn't worry about the dots.
>
> I'm a little more annoyed about ".rar" files appearing in the archive,
> since that's harder to deal with than .gz or .zip.  .gz can be opened
> directly by some emulators, and .zip is supported directly by WinXP,
> but .rar requires an application.

Seems my XP handles RAR ok, and doesn't have ZIP capability. What's
up with that? I can't even make a ZIP file so the Win98 machine here can
use it. Is there something I need to switch on to get ZIP format?

Bill Garber