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A limitation to Paion programs 1s that file nanes may not exceed 8 characters. Right?
Wrong! We know that Quill adds the extension ” doc” to any file name saved from it. This is useful in recognizing a file type by its extension.
However, you may give any three character extension Including numerals and symbols in any order) to a Quill file and provided you enter it as well as the rest of the file name, the file will load. The advantage in having more characters to describe the file will be obvious to anyone with extensive correspondence.
JJones_304 night save a letter to John Jones on March 4th.
The followup on April 15 might be J1415 _etc or JJ304_415 or JJ415_&&& but never JJ&&&_415.
Caution! You are on your own indexing your correspondence. Any index system must be consistent. Don’t use extensions which can be confused with other file types.