Subject: Re: opening .psiword in Win98
From: Nick Gunz (nick@ndg.gunzclan.org)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 18:01:21 CST
At 1/23/02 11:36 AM -0700, Niel de Beaudrap wrote:
>Out of curiousity, does this happen with any file you try to open? Does
>it happen, perhaps, only with files which have a space in their name, or
>something similar that DOS would not have liked in ye oldene dayes, aside
>from the long extension?
I checked this out, and I got a very strange result:
ignoring the long extension, DOS type filenames got me two blank pages:
2001.psiword opens three windows:
Untitled1
Untitled2
2001.psiword
filenames too long for DOS got the same result
2001-08-03.psiword gets
Untitled1
Untitled2
2001-08-03.psiword
But, and here's the weird part, if you break a filename up with spaces, you
get an *extra* blank window for every space.
2001-08 03.psiword gets
Untitled1
Untitled2
Untitled3
2001-08 03.psiword
2001 08 03.psiword gets
Untitled1
Untitled2
Untitled3
Untitled4
2001 08 03.psiword
Two spaces in a row don't seem to make any difference:
2001 08 03.psiword gets
Untitled1
Untitled2
Untitled3
Untitled4
2001 08 03.psiword
All this seems dependent on the long file extension. Creating a new file
type with the extension .pwd opens only the one window, no matter what the
rest of the filename looks like.
- Nick Gunz
p.s. a description of the registry fix would actually be very welcome
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