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310055 2005-01-03 03:10:00 A friend is running Windows XP Home and using M/s Works V3.0B word processor. He now seems unable to allocate file names longer than 8 letters but assures me he has been able to use longer file names in the past. Has he changed some setting somewhere by accident -- thanks Mervyn (824)
310056 2005-01-03 04:17:00 The system requirements for MS Works 3.0 is Windows 3.1 or higher and MS-DOS. It is unlikely/impossible that they were ever able to save files longer than 8 letters under that version. The first version to support Windows 95's long file names was Works 4.0. You can rename the files under windows but files longer than 8 letters will be truncated (i.e. "a long filename.doc" will become "alongf~1.doc") in older applications which do not support them. Alpha (3520)
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