more on Word v.X under Panther on a G4 Powerbook

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

>From: "Glenn L. Austin" <glenn at austin-home.com>
>
>Word (and Excel, and PowerPoint) don't support file names longer than 31
>characters.

>From: Dave Friesen <davefriesen at mac.com>
>Subject: Re: [Ti] Panther and (Word) file names
>Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 11:34:07 -0800
>
>It's not a Panther behavior, it's something that was around for 
>Jaguar and even before then.

Glen, Dave - yes, I am aware of the long-standing file-name length 
limitations in Office.
I have been using Office for a very long time, with many thousands of 
documents, so you get used to the issues.

But what I am reporting under Panther is something entirely new, that 
I have never seen before.

The actual error message ("This is not a valid file name") seems different.
Before (1998-Jaguar), the message was something else.

I also had these messages today, when opening or working with Word files:

	Word could not fire event			(OK)

	Compile Error in Hidden Module: UTILS		(OK)

	Compile Error in Hidden Module: AUOTEXEC	(OK)

I have definitely never seen these error messages before, nor do I 
know what they mean, or why they even appear.  I just click OK, and 
there is nothing specific  happpening that I can detect.

However, they are - to me - additional evidence that Word is trying 
to do some things that are not working very well with Panther.   Am I 
really the ONLY person to be getting these messages??

regards,  Trevor