Maximum length of GoToLink command?

[Debbi Correia]

Hi Tammy,
Replace the backslash with a forward slash for the path names. In the
online help, check out "hypertext commands", then click on "filenames
in" for the full description.

Deb Correia

Tammy VanBoening wrote:
> For a variety of reasons, I have three instances of a Jump To
> hyperlink 
> that must reference a file in a book, but the file is being 
> pulled from a 
> different directory than all other files in the book.
> 
> Twice, I use this path: H:\EFB\Jepp EFB\UGs\AppManager\v1.1\Container
> Files\EFB_Use.fm:Set up flight information and the link works 
> just fine. 
> Once, I must use this path: H:\EFB\Jepp 
> EFB\TSGs\AppManager\v1.1\Container 
> Files\Maintenance.fm:Set up flight
> 
> In the path that is used twice, the total number of
> characters including 
> spaces is 88. In the path that is used once, the number is 
> less - it's 81.
> 
> Whenever I enter the path that is used once after the
> gotolink prompt and 
> select  Enter new hypertext marker, it gets converted to this garbage:
> 
> H:\EFB\Jepp EFBSGs\AppManager\v1.1\Container
> Files\smaintenance.fm:Set up 
> flight
> 
> You can see that EFB\TSGs is now EFBSGs and Maintenance.fm is
> smaintenance.fm.
> 
> Of course the link doesn't work and I give - I can enter the
> first path 
> H:\EFB\Jepp EFB\UGs\AppManager\v1.1\Container Files\EFB_Use.fm:Set up 
> flight information and this saves just fine and it even has more 
> characters in it, so I am assuming that it can't be the number of 
> characters, but I am at a loss to figure out why this second path is 
> getting saved as this garbage when I select Enter new 
> Hypertext marker.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> TVB
> 
> Tammy Van Boening
> Senior Technical Writer
> Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc.
> 303-328-4420
> tammy.vanboening at jeppesen.com