html query - aarrrggghhh

Subject: RE: html query - aarrrggghhh
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 05:45 PM

Tell me about it Zeb...

Jon

Subject: RE: html query - aarrrggghhh
From: mousethief
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 05:30 PM

This reminds me of that sappy "If a child lives with....she will learn" poem from the 1960's.

If a child lives with error messages ... she will learn debugging.

Alex
O..O
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Subject: RE: html query - aarrrggghhh
From: Zebedee
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 05:18 PM

Good advice Jon - I'll certainly be sticking to letters and numbers in future

Funny how you actually need to 'learn' some lessons for yourself before you'll actually believe them...

Zeb

Subject: RE: html query - aarrrggghhh
From: MMario
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 04:58 PM

there are a number of characters not allowed in file names. however, it is usually up to the operator to know and is not doulble checked by the software.

Subject: RE: html query - aarrrggghhh
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 04:42 PM

I don't know anything about UNIX but I learned my lesson when I had several disks converted from CP/M to MSDOS. My files were labeled along the lines of XXX\001, etc and of course the backslash is used to indicate a sub-directory in MSDOS so my new disks were unreadable.

When naming files, stick with letters, numbers and the underscore character.

Jon

Subject: html query - aarrrggghhh
From: Zebedee
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 04:21 PM

In all innocense, I labelled my 'hex' colour files with their pixel size, and the hex details. I endeded up with files, with names such as '1x1#0099cc'

Whilst this might not sound obvious to most, it seemed to me a reasonable way of naming a 1x1 pixel graphic with hex colours of 00 99 cc.

I was wrong! For some obsure reason, putting the hash (#) into my file name renders it unreadable on a UNIX server.

I understood that UNIX was 'case sensitive' but this is stupid, and took me ages to figure out.

Are there any other things that UNIX gets really picky with?

Zeb