File naming convention

2011-01-25 Thread David Bovill
I have the need for an ugly file name hack. I need to store documentation about arbitrary files (.html, .png, .livecode etc files) in a separate folder (called "docs"). These files will be served by a web server - and map directly to the original source code files so that a file "hello.txt" with co

Re: File naming convention

2011-01-25 Thread Björnke von Gierke
why don't you make a docs folder? 4. docs/docs/hello text.html On 25 Jan 2011, at 14:11, David Bovill wrote: > I have the need for an ugly file name hack. I need to store documentation > about arbitrary files (.html, .png, .livecode etc files) in a separate > folder (called "docs"). These files

Re: File naming convention

2011-01-25 Thread David Bovill
Yes - there is is a docs folder - it's called "docs" :) There is an apps folder called "apps" and inside the apps folder are files and folders for instance "app/hello.txt" or app/images/hello.png". Inside the docs folder I want to document things about t

Re: File naming convention

2011-01-25 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Hi David, The first thing to understand about Windows® file names you can't use the following... \ / : * ? " < > | Please take a look at this page... http://www.portfoliofaq.com/pfaq/FAQ00352.htm ... highlight the word "period" in your browser. Here is the word straight from the horse's mout

Re: File naming convention

2011-01-25 Thread Bob Sneidar
To further complicate matters, in a server share environment, it is possible to copy files with bad characters to a server, and then have the server complain that it cannot find the file, or the file doesn't exist. So follow the mantra, NEVER use ANY special characters in a file name. If fact,

Re: File naming convention

2011-01-25 Thread Warren Samples
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 11:01 -0800, Bob Sneidar wrote: > To further complicate matters, in a server share environment, it is possible > to copy files with bad characters to a server, and then have the server > complain that it cannot find the file, or the file doesn't exist. > > So follow the m

Re: File naming convention

2011-01-25 Thread Jeff Massung
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:11 AM, David Bovill wrote: > I have the need for an ugly file name hack. I need to store documentation > about arbitrary files (.html, .png, .livecode etc files) in a separate > folder (called "docs"). These files will be served by a web server - and > map > directly to t

Re: File naming convention

2011-01-25 Thread David Bovill
Thanks for the notes everyone On 25 January 2011 18:50, Calvin Waterbury wrote: > The first thing to understand about Windows® file names you can't use the > following... > > \ / : * ? " < > | > :( I thought the pipe character was OK nowadays? Hmmm... so it seems "." is fine for folders..

Re: File naming convention

2011-01-25 Thread Jeff Massung
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:26 PM, David Bovill wrote: > Thanks for the notes everyone > > > - Renaming source files (documentation "link" now broken) > > - Moving of source files to a new location ("link" broken) > > > > These are the headaches. One thought I've had is to use the revision > con

Re: File naming convention

2011-01-27 Thread form
I think the #2 option should be fine. Apple uses the .app extension for folders, after all. (Not that humans ever see them...) But how about this: docs/ help.txt.dir/ index.html image1.png teapot.png.dir/ index.html to go with this: apps/ help.txt teapot.