Graham Hughes

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since December 9, 1999

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February 23, 2000, on Macintosh to Windows NT Migration:
Speaking as someone who has to support Word on Macs... We do nontrivial books in it for some reason that has never been adequately explained to me. Lots of pages, lots of pretty pictures, pretty much your usual computer book. Word spindles, mutilates and/or eats the files on a regular basis, at least once a week per computer, usually taking the Mac down with it. We hates it, we do. Now, my boss up the hall has been doing about one month between crashes, running mostly Photoshop, Illustrator, and a handful of Adobe products; this is on Sys 8.6. I don't promise this for anybody else, as Bruce is quite the Macphile and has been tuning that machine for as long as I've been here, but it seems to me if your Mac is dying on a regular basis, it might be reasonable to point the finger at any recent Office installs first. As for moving files, my favorite method for moving stuff from Mac to Windows has to be using netatalk and samba on my Linux box, and having each talk their native n...