Exiting Document Summary Gives Different File

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:32 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The suggested filename on exiting Document Summary is different on releases before 12/31/90. WordPerfect for DOS no longer suggests the full document name for the filename. When the customer is prompted to save the file, he can re-enter the full document name. The customer preferred the way the program worked previously. Solutions: The algorithm that WP uses to suggest a DOS filename is to take the first four letters of the first word in the Document Name, the first four letters of the second word in the Document Name, insert a period, and append the first three letters from the Document Type as the extension. In releases up to 08/20/91, if the user typed ABCDEFGH.IJKL as the Document Name and 12345678 as the Document Type, WP would suggest ABCDEFGH.123 as the DOS file name since it treated ABCDEFGH.IJKL as one word. In the 12/31/90 and later releases, a change was made to treat periods as word delimiters. In these releases, the same Document Name and Type yields ABCDIJKL.123 as the suggested DOS filename. If the customer discontinues the use of a period in Document Names, the first eight letters of the Document Name will be used as the suggested name of the file.

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