Access mounted volumes on Windows from LC?

Ben Rubinstein benr_mc at cogapp.com
Fri Jul 1 06:38:05 EDT 2016


On 30/06/2016 19:35, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Roger Eller wrote:
>> I never build for Windows in OS X.  So I only know when it worked and
>> stopped and worked again on Windows.  I do recall some talk about the Mac
>> version still having the issue for a while after 6.7.5.
>
> Any potential bug symptoms evident in v6.x or v7.x need to be checked in the
> most recent DP build, currently 8.1 dp2.
>
> 6 and 7 have joined 5 and 4 and the others in having reached end-of-life.
> Technical support is still available for current subscribers, but no new work
> is being done on versions prior to 8. Any bugs found in those older versions
> will remain forever.

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the note - and indeed I'm doing all my new work in 8.1dp2, which is 
going great.

However this is an app developed over very many years and in use in a number 
of places processing a great deal of text; and although in theory using the 
new Unicode capabilities will make it a lot better, in practise the current 
installations contain a lot of character set workarounds which will break. 
Until I/my clients can justify the testing load of the upgrade, I don't wish 
to move this app even to LC 7 let alone 8.

Fortunately, although the UNC bug broken in 6.6.4 and repaired in 6.7.5 was 
broken again by 6.7.7; it was repaired again by at least 6.7.11, the last 
version of 6.7. So I'm cautiously happy!

Ben





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