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Old 01-03-2017, 04:02 PM   #1
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ebook-viewer and 8.3 DOS short filenames
I love Calibre's ebook-viewer.exe, but I also love old software and sometimes use a DOS file-management shell [ProFinder, which came bundled with WordStar for DOS] that can only pass on short filenames (8.3-style) to other programs, such that an ebook file with this name:

Quantum Night - Robert J. Sawyer.epub

has its named passed on to the Calibre ebook viewer as:

QUANTU~1.EPU

The problem, of course, is the extension .EPU, because the Calibre ebook-viewer.exe doesn't recognize it, and so gives this error message:

ERROR: Could not open ebook
ValueError: No plugin to handle input format: epu

Would it be possible to add the ability for the ebook viewer to recognize .epu as a valid synonym for the extension .epub?

Thank you so, so much!
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