[Ti] Panther and (Word) file names

[Glenn L. Austin]

on 12/20/03 10:25 AM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley at hutley at geneva-link.ch wrote:

> 
> I have just made the transition, so far without problem, to Panther,
> on 15"FW800 Powerbook.
> 
> But this evenin, I notice a new strange behaviour.
> 
> I am working with many Word (Office v X) files.
> 
> Some of these have long file names.
> 
> The OS can jhandle thelong names OK, in that the files are on the
> disk with long names.
> 
> For example:    Organic Chemistry multiple choice QuickQuiz.doc
> 
> However, when I work on  this document, and then try to save it, I
> get the message:
> 
> This is not a valid file name
> 
> The Save dialogue then presents me with a shortened version of the
> name (as it seems that Word can  only handle short names, which is
> not at all new), yet when I continue with the save process, it gives
> me that same error again, even though it does save the file.  Then I
> have to manually rename the file.
> 
> This feels a very strange behaviour.  Is this some incompatibiltiy of
> Word file name handling that appears with Panther ?

Word (and Excel, and PowerPoint) don't support file names longer than 31
characters.  If they do a "safe save" where they write the new file before
deleting the old, then it is entirely likely that this is the problem.

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