Re: PDFs; a Win9 gotcha

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Patricia M Godfrey wrote:

>     I've just discovered a nice chicken-and-egg problem. Don't ever put
> XyWrite in the C:\Program Files folder. The DOS 8-letter name of Program
> Files is PROGRA~1. XyWrite, DOS or Win, being a 16-bit app, cannot read
> long file names. And even if you set your default soft hyphen character
> to be something other than the tilde, XyWrite needs to read the path
> (which contains the tilde) BEFORE it can load the defaults.So nothing
> beyond EDITOR.EXE gets loaded. Be warned.

I've a feeling there may be workarounds for this. One was just mentioned on an
OS/2 List, but I haven't looked it over yet. It probably won't be applicable
to Win, but if I see anything that might be useful re this issue in the wider
world, I'll let you know.

Jordan