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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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