Publisher 2.0a longer file names?

[jd]

Does anyone have an idea how to work around Publisher 2.0a's file name
limitations? Is there some utility that I can download that will allow me to
create longer filenames?

By the way, I'm running Pub on a PC with Win '98. Yeah, they're both really
old but in my opinion this version of Publisher is the best. I've got later
versions but prefer this one.

Thanks!

 

[Ed Bennett]

Does anyone have an idea how to work around Publisher 2.0a's file name
limitations? Is there some utility that I can download that will
allow me to create longer filenames?

Nope. Publisher 2.0a is a 16-bit application, and as such is completely
limited to 8.3 filenames.

(N.B.: Publisher 2.0a will NOT run under Windows XP 64-bit edition -
although that probably won't be a worry of yours for a while, if you're
still on Windows 98.)

If you could get Microsoft to release the source code for Publisher 2.0a to
you, you might be able to recompile it using 32-bit common dialogs, etc.,
but I doubt it would be easy, and I doubt you'd get the source code out of
Microsoft anyway.

I remember one resident (who has been absent of late) saying that the three
best versions of Publisher were Publisher 2.0a, Publisher 97, and Publisher
2003.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You can download all the Knowledge base articles for version 2.0
PUB: KB Help File on Current Publisher 2.0 & 3.0 Issues
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/112142/en-us