In message <49fdaf8a51.thebe...@sarno.freeserve.co.uk>
Geoffrey Baxendale <thebe...@sarno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> In message <mpro.ldxb6k000031d09j9.pit...@pittdj.co.uk>
> David Pitt <pit...@pittdj.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> > Steve Fryatt <li...@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > On 23 Dec, Geoffrey Baxendale wrote in message
> > > <4e5f568a51.thebe...@sarno.freeserve.co.uk>:
> > >
> > > > I think you may have hit the nail on the head Michael. I use !Sparkplug
> > > > 2.28 and I have had trouble with it mangling file names before. Had to
> > > > re-name a whole directory of htm files once to get the help pages to
> > > > work for one application.
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions for a better prog any one?
> > >
> > > A more up-to-date copy (as I'm fairly sure this 'feature' was fixed ages
> > > ago)?
> >
> > It was indeed sorted ages ago. As I recall it was a deliberate ploy to use
> > the underscore character, I forget the reason why, but this turned out to be
> > less that ideal.
> >
> > There is a setting in in !SparkPlug.Options. The catch is that SparkPlug
> > cannot edit its options so it is a StrongED or Zap job. The byte at &40
> > needs to be &2F, '/', it was &5F, '_'.
> >
> > The latest SparkPlug 2.29 is correct.
> >
> > http://www.davidpilling.com/splug.bas
> >
> >
> Got that now and all is well. (I tried 2.6 last night, which I had, and
> that was also OK)
>
> Thanks to all, and sorry to blame NS when it was my system. I didn't
> realise there had been such big changes from 2.6. I had a look in that
> and I see that that uses sprites.
>
> Just need to sort mimemap now as the system doesn't set the files types
> to png.
>
Thinking about this I realised that mimemap doesn't come into this, so I
tried unpacking with !Infozip. That works properly and sets the file
type of the icons to png. !Sparkplug sets them as data. Is there an
option in choices to change that?
TTFN
--
Geoff.
Using Acorn StrongARM Kinetic RiscPC.
Oxymoron of the day: "Common Sense"
