[muglo] Re: PC emulator, importing files
- From: Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:55:53 -0400
On 10/28/05, Lee Dickey <Lee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, Eric, for your quick response. I tried the drag and drop,
> but that did not work for me, whether I dragged from the USB key drive
> to VPC (no transfer, no link) I dragged from the Mac Desktop to
> the VPC. Again no file transfer, no link. I had the emulator running
> and active at the time. My pal is not running a mail program on his
> Virtual PC, and disconnects his network connection while the VPC is
> active, so your mail option seems to be out. I think that we will try
> your suggestion to use the VPC preferences to share an OSX directory
> with VPC. Report will follow.
Very strange your drag-and-drop did not work. If I'm not mistaken
that's enabled by default (you drag a file from the Mac OS Finder and
drop it onto the Windows desktop).
Perhaps you need to check the Preferences.
As for disconnecting the internet -- it is 100% safe to connect to the
internet if you only visit known safe sites through Internet Explorer.
You can e-mail the file to a Hotmail (or Yahoo or GMail or any other
site with web accessible e-mail) account and download it to the
Windows virtual PC in VPC. Likewise, you can e-mail it from your VPC
virtual PC to your Mac side using a web interface e-mail system.
> On 2005 Oct 28, at 16:54, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>
> > Simple solution: drag and drop the file to the VPC emulator, or e-mail
> > it to a hotmail account and download into VPC.
> >
> > Slightly more complex: Using VPC preferences, share one of the OS
> > X-native directories (folders in OS 9 parlance) and make it one of the
> > drive letters in Windows. This will allow you to treat an OS X
> > directory as if it were a native Windows directory.
> >
> > Most complex: read-the-manual
> That gets me into that operating system much deeper than
> I ever want to be.
Windows is actually a lot easier to use than us Mac-bigots would like
to admit. MS has come a long way since the era of Win95 drive hell.
> > As for USB key drives being shared... you'd have to check under the
> > VPC preferences for details. (they'd show up as a D or E drive in all
> > likelihood)
>
> They did not show up. It seems that the Virtual PC is not that smart,
> or that feature is turned off.
I believe it'll be turned off. VPC actually has remarkably good USB
support so you may want to try enabling it (though, since it's a
keydrive and OS X will load it, there's a chance VPC simply can't take
control of the hardware (bad things happen if _two_ operating systems
access one device simultaneously)).
Eric.
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