Re: Orbis malfunction

["Paul J. Bodin" <pjbodin>]

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 06:51:35 -0500, Tom F. Driver wrote:

> My Orbis won't orbit.  I'd appreciate help from anybody.  Here's the history:
>
> Weeks ago I had a disk disaster, from which I've been slowly recovering.  I
> knew I would have to re-build my Textbases but wasn't worried by that because
> my data files were recovered.  But when I tried, Orbis failed.  I've re-
> installed NB 4.5.  I deleted all the old entries in the Orbis sub-directory and
> then re-installed Orbis.

Hmmm...

Is there any chance that you have some of the files you want to use in
directories that have Win95-type names that DOS programs don't
recognize as legal?  For example, if you have some of you files in a
subdirectory of the "C:\Program Files" directory NB will have some of
the problems you describe.  The directory name is too long and contains
an illegal character (the space).  Win95 is supposed to supply
DOS-legal filenames to DOS programs, but some programs (NB among them)
will choke in the confusion.

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