Gentle list members,

I have met three unpleasant things recently:

1) Not informative error message under Windows'95:

We got some diskettes with many small Wind Word files on them. Each file
had a long name which did not match with their short 8.3 name. WE wanted
to rename each file in order to their 8.3 name match to their contents. We
began to edit the redirected directory made in the DOS window of the
Windows'95. When we wanted to save the RENAME.BAT file, the system refused
it. It gave an error number and an error message.  There were plenty of
free space on the diskette. We found out that the file could not be
created because the area preserved for the long Windows'95 names on the
diskette was full. THIS FACT SHOULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN CLEARLY IN THE
ERROR MESSAGE OF THE SYSTEM!

2) Sticking to English word order in WinWord 6.0.

I wanted to use the Capture feature of the English version of WinWord 6.0.
This feature adds labels to figures, pictures and other attachments.  When
I wanted to edit the label, I could get only labels like "Figure 1", but 1
could not get labels like "1st figure", however, in Hungarian the word
order and the custom is 1. ordinal number 2. noun ["1. a'bra"].

3) How the computers force to change the Hungarian spelling:

The spelling checker of the Hungarian WinWord 7.0 (and lower) contains the
months with English-like capital letters "Szeptember", instead of the
currently valid "szeptember". Most people are lazy to correct the
automatically offered date, therefore I got regularly documents with
incorrect Hungarian spelling of dates.

If somebody knows a mailbox of the Microsoft where they
_do_read_the_letters, please help me forward my complaints.

                                        Regards
                                                       Frank

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