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  From: Richard Russell <richard@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Robert Wuttke <robert.wuttke@disc.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:11:42 +1030

Re: Corel WP and APC Mag.

Robert Wuttke wrote:
> 
> Instead on grumbling, someone write them a script, send it to them, maybe
> they will use it and put your name in the magazine.
> 
> Give it the Linux touch, that is everyone helps everyone.
> 
> Please note this is not stated in a mean or nasty way, so no flame wars,
> pleeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaase!
> 

I would be happy to do it if:

a) I had the time
b) I was any good at writing scripts

Unfortunately, neither of those is true, so I won't be writing one. :)

On a related note, I'd be interested to know which (if any) of the HTML
editors (the WYSIWYG ones) create case-sensitive web pages... Anyone
know? Is this something that should be brought to the attention of the
tool-makers?

rr

> Rob Wuttke.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Russell <richard@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
> To: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
> Date: Tuesday, 23 March 1999 12:47
> Subject: Re: Corel WP and APC Mag.
> 
> >Darryl Ross wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey There,
> >>
> >> I have got it up and running. The first thing I noticed about the CD is
> that
> >> the directory and file names are all lowercase, while the HTML files on
> the
> >> CD they have put capital letters in for the first characters. Not a
> problem
> >> in Win95, but it *is* in Linux. When you click on the link, and the
> address
> >> bar thingo shows the new address, if there is any capitals in the name,
> >> change them to lowercase letters and it should work fine.
> >
> >the APC CD has had this problem for a long time -- I have emailed them
> >about it previously, but got no response, and saw no change. Surely it
> >can't be hard for them to sort this out... I assume they are using some
> >sort of WYSIWYG editor, and not editing source code manually, and their
> >tool is probably designed for Windows, so it is probably causing the
> >problems, but even so, I'm sure that they could write a script to change
> >all links to lowercase, or even do some actual cross-checking with the
> >filesystem... Maybe if we all wrote to them, they'd fix it...  Anyway,
> >that's my grumble for today... :)
> >
> >rr
> 
> [snip]

-- 
Richard Russell
richard@cs.adelaide.edu.au
-- 
Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question and the answer is
no.

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