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- 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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