2004-01-21

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2004-01-21 03:51 pm

When dialog boxes get too long

Found this while trying to open an MSWord document in slightly nested path; the document itself had a fairly long filename.

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Rough translation:

Path/to/VeryLongFilename.doc should only be opened in readonly mode if you do not need to save any changes. Do you wish to open the file in read

[Yes] [No] [Cancel]

That is, the message was simply truncated. Oops.