Linking to folder on network

[Ann Zdunczyk]

Another thing I found when working on network drives at Western
Electric/AT&T/Lucent is that the Drive letter that is assigned to the drive
needs to be the same on all machines that will be accessing the FrameMaker
documents.

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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Simon BUCH
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 4:58 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Cc: Jessica D.Davis
Subject: RE: Linking to folder on network

>From the time I worked in Adobe technical support, there are a number of
recommendations given from the days when FrameMaker was on multiple
platforms, such as:
	avoid filenames with spaces, tabs, or initial periods
	avoid using characters that have special meaning on some
operating systems, such as: / \ : ; * ? > < , $ % |
	avoid using very long filenames
	avoid using very long pathnames
	remember some operating systems are CaSe SeNsItIvE


The most important rule to remember is:
	always use UNIX style pathnames!

Why?  FrameMaker will interpret backslash sequences as special codes,
for example:
	C:\etc\hosts.fm
will interpret the '\e' as a horizontal elipse "...".  The fix is to
reference: C:/etc/hosts.fm


Even though FrameMaker is no longer multi-platform, the recommendations
still persist.

// Simon BUCH
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