problems saving attachment?

[Dave Liquorice]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:27:12 -0400 (AST), Trevor Smith wrote:

> Can people on this list that have HPFS partitions try saving this
> attachment (named .nedit) to their hard drives and let me know if it
> works or not?

Works as drag 'n drop to my desk top on a HPFS drive. Fails on drag 'n 
drop to a FAT drive object.

> Also, if not, what error message you receive? Thanks.

<quote>
Workplace Shell
The number of characters in the directory of file name spefified exceed 
the maximun length allowed on this file system. (PMV1026).
</quote>

Follwed by

<quote>
Workplace Shell
SYS0266: The specified file was not copied.
<quote>

Which is correct for a FAT file system as you are only allowed 3 
characters after the dot. .nedit has 5.

Cheers
Dave.