William W. Austin wrote: > When I tried to do this in OO writer, when I tred to "save as" the > file as donation_????????_2005-??-??.odt > > (automatic extension, of course), it failed. I typed the filename in > and hit "save"; however the window just sat there until I typed a > name it liked. > > So I tried both OOo-1.1.3 and staroffice7 - same behavior. > > Curiously if I save the file to some other name and go to the shell > and rename it to (for instance) donation_????????_2005-??-??.odt I > can open it and work with it, save it, etc., just fine. > > Is this a bug or is it documented somewhere? And if it *is* > intentional, why?
OOo uses platform independent code to check wether a file name is "legal" or not. Unfortunately Windows is more restrictive here, so '?' is rejected. I think this can be called a bug, at least it's a necessary enhancement to allow all characters that are "legal" on that platform. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
