Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

2006-01-29 Thread Rob Wolfe 
Actually when you remember the ancient history of Windows and MS/DOS
you will see why. That filename, and a lot of others (as noted by
Fredrik) are legacies of that time. They were special filenames (think
"/dev/null") that related to specific devices.

Gives us a good example of one of the little "gotchas" involved in
cross platform development.

Rob

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Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

2006-01-29 Thread Ido Yehieli 
ok, Thanks Paul!

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Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

2006-01-28 Thread Paul McGuire 
"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Ido Yehieli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > So I can't run SLUT on windows then?
> >
> Well, here's what I did (I'm running on WinXP).
>
> 1. Opened up slut.zip with a text editor (used Scite.exe), and changed all
> of the "/aux" references to "/bux"
> 2. Expanded the ZIP file.
> 3. Renamed /bux folder to /auxx (/aux is not allowed)
>
> It turns out the this folder only contains a separate GIF builder utility,
> so I think this is not a critical part of the software.
>
> -- Paul
>
>
Oh, you also have to modify setup.py, to change the reference to slut.aux
package to slut.auxx.

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Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

2006-01-28 Thread Paul McGuire 
"Ido Yehieli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> So I can't run SLUT on windows then?
>
Well, here's what I did (I'm running on WinXP).

1. Opened up slut.zip with a text editor (used Scite.exe), and changed all
of the "/aux" references to "/bux"
2. Expanded the ZIP file.
3. Renamed /bux folder to /auxx (/aux is not allowed)

It turns out the this folder only contains a separate GIF builder utility,
so I think this is not a critical part of the software.

-- Paul


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Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

2006-01-28 Thread Ido Yehieli 
So I can't run SLUT on windows then?

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Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

2006-01-28 Thread Fredrik Lundh 
Ido Yehieli wrote:

> OKl, sorry this seems to have nothing to do with SLUT it self, for some
> reason a directory names 'aux' can not be created... most bizzare.
> "mkdir aux" just returns "The directory name is invalid."

on windows ?

win32 reserves the file names CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1,
COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2,
LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 for devices.





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Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

2006-01-28 Thread Ido Yehieli 
OKl, sorry this seems to have nothing to do with SLUT it self, for some
reason a directory names 'aux' can not be created... most bizzare.
"mkdir aux" just returns "The directory name is invalid."

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