Thanks for the reply.
I'm using Windows 2000. The problem occurs with both development
(XStorable.storeToURL) and Writer. The exact message I get from Writer is
"You cannot save in the URL location you specified. Please choose another
location."
Open Office version 2.4.1
Windows 2000 SP4
File name:
ABC:20080915NE-AD~01-1234567890~0001112223,43,COPY,1097045494,1.ott
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Harold Fuchs <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 15/09/2008 19:10, Grover Blue wrote:
>
>> Open Office does let me save files with a colon in the name. It tries to
>> interpret it as a protocol or URL designation. Will this be fixed, or is
>> it
>> the desired behavior?
>>
>>
>>
> You don't say which Operating System (OS) you are using. If I try this in
> OpenOffice 2.4.1 on Windows XP Pro SP3 I get an OpenOffice error message
> "The above filename is invalid".
>
> Of course, on Windows, a string with a colon immediately following a
> single, initial letter, such as "D:xxx", will be interpreted as a name
> ("xxx") in the current directory of the specified drive (D) and, as such is
> legal if the drive exists and is writeable.
>
> Personally I think that the checking of a file name for legality is the job
> of the OS and not of the application but that's just me.
>
> --
> Harold Fuchs
> London, England
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