Re: Make sure I understand this???

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 10882
interpreted = N
texte = >>>If I do it like this using and change >>>the name of the file on my hard drive to south%20africa.jpg then it works. >>>If I leave the file name south africa.jpg without the %20 in the filename, >>>broken image. >> >>Gary, >> >>When you use it tells WebSTAR to >>serve a file named south%20africa.jpg. As long as your files have any >>spaces in them, this technique will not work - you actually have to change >>the file names themselves - to get rid of the spaces in those names. > >Actually it does work. , where country >is Saudi Arabia or South Africa. looks like this in view source >/saudi%20arabia.jpg. And the files are now on the hard drive as saudi >arabia.jpg and south africa.jpg. After a clear file info cache from >webstar fixed my renaming of some files to there full names from just >saudi.jpg to saudi arabia.jpg and it being able to find them correctly :) >(Gary you will write 100 times on the black board after class today, clear >the file info cache after renaming or moving files on the server hard >drive). > >The online docs need to be corrected is all. If you wrap the whole > >> >>When you do this, I would suggest that instead of renaming south >>africa.jpg to south%20africa.jpg, why not rename it to >>southAfrica.jpg? Then you don't ever have to worry about using [url] tags >>for those files ... :) > >Because now they can type in Saudia Arabia and get back the search data vs >typing in saudiarabia. I can find the image from a relational search using >the country name and get other data including a cute little flag to go >along with it. And my saudi distributor probably has more money they every >one on this list 10 times over. I don't want to offend him :)Cool!I guess I misunderstood the way WebSTAR works. I'm no expert in HTML, that's for sure ... :) Sorry for the misinformation, and thank you for the enlightenment!Sincerely, Ken Grome .......... ken@iav.com .......... :) Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Make sure I understand this??? (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  2. Re: Make sure I understand this??? (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
  3. Re: Make sure I understand this??? (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  4. Make sure I understand this??? (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
>>>If I do it like this using [url][country][/url].jpg> and change >>>the name of the file on my hard drive to south%20africa.jpg then it works. >>>If I leave the file name south africa.jpg without the %20 in the filename, >>>broken image. >> >>Gary, >> >>When you use [url][country][/url].jpg> it tells WebSTAR to >>serve a file named south%20africa.jpg. As long as your files have any >>spaces in them, this technique will not work - you actually have to change >>the file names themselves - to get rid of the spaces in those names. > >Actually it does work. [url][country][/url].jpg>, where country >is Saudi Arabia or South Africa. looks like this in view source >/saudi%20arabia.jpg. And the files are now on the hard drive as saudi >arabia.jpg and south africa.jpg. After a clear file info cache from >webstar fixed my renaming of some files to there full names from just >saudi.jpg to saudi arabia.jpg and it being able to find them correctly :) >(Gary you will write 100 times on the black board after class today, clear >the file info cache after renaming or moving files on the server hard >drive). > >The online docs need to be corrected is all. If you wrap the whole > >> >>When you do this, I would suggest that instead of renaming south >>africa.jpg to south%20africa.jpg, why not rename it to >>southAfrica.jpg? Then you don't ever have to worry about using [url] tags >>for those files ... :) > >Because now they can type in Saudia Arabia and get back the search data vs >typing in saudiarabia. I can find the image from a relational search using >the country name and get other data including a cute little flag to go >along with it. And my saudi distributor probably has more money they every >one on this list 10 times over. I don't want to offend him :)Cool!I guess I misunderstood the way WebSTAR works. I'm no expert in HTML, that's for sure ... :) Sorry for the misinformation, and thank you for the enlightenment!Sincerely, Ken Grome .......... ken@iav.com .......... :) Kenneth Grome

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