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E/L (and possibly others) 1.99q9 BUG: will not recognize filename



Environment:
E/L 1.99q9 running under FreeBSD 2.1R (XFree86 3.1.1)
486DX4/100, pretty typical system with SCSI drive (Adaptec 1542CP 
controller), 16 MB RAM
Running MSWord 5.1a in the Executor environment

*NOTE* This is a FreeBSD system.  I wish I had a linux system to test it 
on, but unfortunately hardware is scarce in this household.  If any kind 
soul out there who has Linux, Executor, and MSWord has a few free clock 
cycles and wouldn't mind testing this to see if it is a real bug or not, 
please do so, I'd appreciate it greatly.

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.

I got up the next morning and decided to continue working on this file (I 
wasn't done yet).  I fired up Executor and ran MSWord.  I went to the 
"File...Open" dialog and tried to retrieve the file.  BUT IT DID NOT 
APPEAR IN THE "OPEN FILE" DIALOG BOX.  I popped open a UNIX shell window 
and did an ls.  It's not my imagination; the file really did exist.  
Weird.  Furthermore, the file appeared under the MSWord "last <x> 
documents" list, and I am able to select it there and the file DOES 
open.

I then looked in Browser, and the file DID NOT APPEAR IN THE BROWSER 
WINDOWS EITHER.

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.

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.
b) "FAQ- Running Executor under FreeBSD" IS a valid filename, and
   something is wrong with Executor's filesystem handling code or something.
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.

Enclosed please find a TAR file containig the bad file I mentioned.  As 
stated, this is a MSWord 5.1a document.

Thank you for your assistance.

Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212
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bad.tar.gz


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