[Ti] Panther and (Word) file names

[Dave Friesen]

It's not a Panther behavior, it's something that was around for Jaguar 
and even before then.

Office X.v is Carbon, even though it doesn't run under OS9.

Illustrator 10 has the same problem and I suspect, many other programs.

On Dec 20, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:
>
> 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 ?
>
> I even had Word suddenly quit on me, after one of those messages.
>
> Has anyone seen this same issue?
>
> regards,  Trevor
>