Is there a setting in XP that will fix this?
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oh, sorry.....that was just too funny.
as has already been pointed out, windows, being the silly OS it is can only know what a file is from it's extention. duh!
ACDSee is one program that actually uses the amiga method of looking the file header. I use that instead of windows exploder to view files. Apparently, it was written by at least one former amiga programmer which is one reason it can see IFF's. It can also open up Lha's. It also sees the camera info in the files from my Fuji. (EXIF or whatever it's called.)
I've been ttrasfering files between different OS's for years and years and I have simply gotten into the habit of naming my files with extentions, no spaces and with as small a name as possible. because you have to assume windows is dumb.
I use Dopus magellian to rename files, but you can also use
utilities from here.
