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Windows Me and tournament's names


Erkson

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It is about

http://bbo.bridgebase.com:81/tourneyresults/

which displays tournament results .lin files.

 

I noticed that when I click on some of them Windows opens them directly from BBO and all is OK, but when I click on some others Windows opens a blank file, and I must download the file on my hard disk and open it from my hard disk to get results displayed.

 

I know now why :

this one will be opened directly from BBO :

http://bbo.bridgebase.com:81/tourneyresult...MATCH__~1~8.lin

 

and this one will be displayed as a blank .lin file :

http://bbo.bridgebase.com:81/tourneyresult..._ligi__~1~6.lin

 

It depends on the number of characters of the .lin file's name : less than 71* it will be opened directly from BBO, more than 71* it will display a blank .lin file.

 

Quite annoying.

 

Erkson

 

* it may be 72 or 73, I had not time to determine it with precision, but the limit is precise.

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Using windows NT4 (service patch 6 I think), I can open both of those in lin file. Also same with windows XP professional.

 

Windows ME has always had some annoying habits. :-(

 

Ben

 

Hi, Ben, and thanks for the information. It's good that newer Windows have not this problem.

 

Best regards.

Erkson

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