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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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..
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
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.
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