Re: NB Beta?

["David B. Kronenfeld" kfeld@xxxxxxxx]

I hesitate to wade in here, since I'm sure that there are those who
know more. But...
You have to remember that NB Windows is a bastard (even if a bastard
that I kind of like !)--with new Windows stuff added on its XY DOS
legacy. New stuff that's added seems all up to later Windows
abilities (for better or for worse), but the passive legacy stuff
seems pretty much left as it was. The legacy is nice for those of us
who are in the habit of using old XY command line (and other) stuff.
Among the things left untouched--i.e. in the legacy state--seem to be
internal directory and file-name stuff, hence the truncation (which
also happens when one appends the file name to a document as I like to do).
But I routinely use long filenames in NB* with no problem at
all--when I use them in the NB Windows ways--re directories and such,.
I don't know enough to know whether changing the internal file
names/directories stuff in NB would be easy or hard for NB. Unless
someone here already know the answer, you might email "Steve" at NB
in New York and ask about it. It would be nice to have long
filenames work everywhere.
                David

At 02:17 PM 3/20/2006, you wrote:
> > > NB 8 Beta can't do long filenames. This is quite surprising and
> > > disappointing.
> >
> > I believe it can, Harry. See attached.
> That's "doing long filenames" the way Xy does in Win9x, the way that
> produces a short filename with a tilde and a number.
>
> When I do a DIR, your file comes up as THIS_I~1.NB. Xy4DOS can do that.
> And if you want to use NB to SAve a file named 123456789.NB, NB
> simply won't let you. It produces an error box saying: "Too many
> letters in file name."
>
> I'm pretty sure U2 has a better workaround for LFNs than this!
> Also re NB 8 Beta, I very often get into a situation in which the
> cursor won't go to the command line without mousing it there. The
> keystroke that puts out BC simply doesn't work in several
> situations--e.g., just after the error box mentioned above comes up.
> If I use the mouse to insert a cursor on the command line,
> functionality is restored.
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx