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Re: E/L (and possibly others) 1.99q9 BUG: will not recognize
At 05:08 AM 3/15/96 -0800, Donald Burr wrote:
>Anyway, here's the bug: I was working on a file, and saved it as "FAQ-
>Running Executor under FreeBSD". AFAIK this is a valid Mac filename, and
>Word didn't complain because it allowed me to save under that name. Ok,
>so the file is there (I checked). I shutdown my computer because it was
>bedtime.
No, it is *not* a valid Mac filename - Mac filenames are limited to 31 chars
>FYI the file was saved in the UNIX filesystem, NOT in a "hfv" file. I
>tried saving this file in a HFV file, and I got the error "Disk not
>found" from MSWord.
I guess when saving to the unix filesystem, the filename is passed right
thru, but when saving to an hfv, it uses the real HFS filesystem.
>There's either one of three things wrong here:
>
>a) "FAQ- Running Executor under FreeBSD" is NOT a valid Mac filename, and
> either Word and/or Executor was at fault in NOT telling me "hey, that's
> not a good filename" when I saved it.
That sounds like it
>b) "FAQ- Running Executor under FreeBSD" IS a valid filename, and
> something is wrong with Executor's filesystem handling code or something.
nope
>c) This is a FreeBSD-specific problem, and does not happen under other
> Executors (i.e. running under real Linux, or DOS, or whatnot). This
> is why I would be very grateful if someone who has a Linux or other
> system could test this for me.
Sounds like this would happen on Linux, FreeBSD or Win95 (does E/D under OS/2
support LFNs?}
Ian
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