Monday, April 13, 2009

Incompatible operating systems

Microsoft and Apple intentionally keep their file systems incompatible with each other. I think it is an effort to preserve user base and thus income. There seems to be no way around this policy.
There are several ways to assault the problem. Both Linux and BSD will read and write these files. The learning curve to make use of this feature is steep.

The simple approach I know is to use email. An incompatible file received as an email or an email attachment will not open but it can be stored or compressed. It then can be uncompressed and emailed back to a compatible system. Compatible file formats, such as PDF, JPEG, GIF etc will run after mailing.

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