Question

I have noticed that when I refer to OS/390 style dataset names in Twiki topics, the first qualifier gets removed, example:

If I code SYS1.PARMLIB it becomes PARMLIB

The pattern seems to be

• At least one upper case letter
• Period
• At least three upper case letters

The result is the first word and the period gets chopped off.

SYS1.PArmlib shows up as SYS1.PArmlib

SYS1.PARmlib shows up as SYS1.PARmlib

As in these examples I can get around it by coding

<nop>SYS1.PARMLIB

But I am wondering what TextFormattingRules apply here??

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• TWiki version: 01 Sep 2001
• Web server: IBM HTTP Server V5R2M0?
• Server OS: OS/390 2.9                          [ WOW!!! MainframeTWiki! AndreaSterbini ]
• Web browser: MS IE 5
• Client OS: NT

-- DanaMitchell - 15 Nov 2001

Answer

Hi Dana,

Is the truncated work linked? In case yes, it is the Otherweb.TopicName syntax that links to a topic in another web.

You can escape single words as you describe. You can also escape linking of WikiWords in a whole section be enclosing it in undocumented <noautolink> ... </noautolink> tags.

-- PeterThoeny - 16 Nov 2001

Nope, it's not a link, just any text string in the format A.AAA that shows up as A.AAA

-- DanaMitchell - 16 Nov 2001

Dana, the problem is that OS/390 style dataset names have the same syntax as TWiki's Web.Topic markup! TWiki's built-in behaviour is to not show the Web name.

I'm not sure what to suggest for a solution though!

-- MartinCleaver - 17 Nov 2001