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24 Oct 00 - 04:21 PM (#326315) Subject: html query - aarrrggghhh From: Zebedee 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 |
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24 Oct 00 - 04:42 PM (#326331) Subject: RE: html query - aarrrggghhh From: Jon Freeman 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 |
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24 Oct 00 - 04:58 PM (#326343) Subject: RE: html query - aarrrggghhh From: MMario 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. |
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24 Oct 00 - 05:18 PM (#326355) Subject: RE: html query - aarrrggghhh From: Zebedee 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 |
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24 Oct 00 - 05:30 PM (#326363) Subject: RE: html query - aarrrggghhh From: mousethief 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 |
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24 Oct 00 - 05:45 PM (#326376) Subject: RE: html query - aarrrggghhh From: Jon Freeman Tell me about it Zeb... Jon |