Windows LFN's (HP NewWave)

Just found the following snippet in a 1990 document (someone's review of a GUI show which they'd attended). Just struck me as interesting in that I never knew there was an alternative to 8.3 filenames in the DOS/Windows world prior to Win95, nor have I ever heard of HP NewWave before... Apparently also included macros/activity recording, associations between data and application (e.g. double-click on a spreadsheet file and it opens in the spreadsheet app etc.), and context-sensitive help. Sounds like a winner, only I've never even heard of it... Apologies to the original author (who almost certainly isn't on this list!) for the cut & paste! (I do like that first line :-) ------- NewWave is a 'front end' to MSWindows to make them useable. It provides a Filer facility which tarts up the MS-DOS filing system to enable 30 character filenames with no obvious character set limitations (ie it'll accept a space in the filename) and a framework to interchange and combine multiple data types into one document. This framework manages dynamic links between the document and the original object which is contained in the document such that when the document is reconstructed any changes to, say the spreadsheet data, get reflected in, say, the report. Parts of foreign objects can also be imported with the same results, eg a few rows and columns of a spreadsheet can be imported to a word processed document.