Hello all, I'm having a weird windows problem I wonder if anybody knows anything about: all of a sudden programs that work from the dos prompt at having difficulty with long file and folder names. I.e. when I try to write to the directory "My Documents" (actually c:\Documents and Settings\Dan\My Documents), the files actually get written to a separate directory, c:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Dan\My%20Documents which appears along side the other in the file tree. The contents of this new directory to not map onto the "My Documents" directory. They are separate. This problem has arisen in the last week or so, and it is affecting bat files that were working fine until recently. Here's an example of the syntax I've been using:
cd\saxon6_5_3 java -jar saxon.jar -o "c:/documents and settings/dan/my documents/_filing cabinet/dm2/3.revised/name/name.htm" "c:/documents and settings/dan/my documents/_filing cabinet/dm2/3.revised/name/name.xml" "c:/documents and settings/dan/my documents/_filing cabinet/dm2/xslt/dm1file2.xsl" cd\
I've looked for help but not seen anything relevant. Any suggestions? -dan
Dan,
I'm no Windows expert (of course), but the first things the techs here ask when I have trouble with my Win98 machine is have you run the anti-virus program, and have you run the anti-spyware programs? I also wonder if you've installed any system software or performed any system updates lately, or installed or updated any software that might have updated system files. Is it just files written by Java, or other files that are causing problems (and have you updated your Java lately)? Are there any symptoms beyond the one obvious one--the use of URL-encoded names rather than names with spaces?
Peter
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Hello all, I'm having a weird windows problem I wonder if anybody knows anything about: all of a sudden programs that work from the dos prompt at having difficulty with long file and folder names. I.e. when I try to write to the directory "My Documents" (actually c:\Documents and Settings\Dan\My Documents), the files actually get written to a separate directory, c:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Dan\My%20Documents which appears along side the other in the file tree. The contents of this new directory to not map onto the "My Documents" directory. They are separate. This problem has arisen in the last week or so, and it is affecting bat files that were working fine until recently. Here's an example of the syntax I've been using:
cd\saxon6_5_3 java -jar saxon.jar -o "c:/documents and settings/dan/my documents/_filing cabinet/dm2/3.revised/name/name.htm" "c:/documents and settings/dan/my documents/_filing cabinet/dm2/3.revised/name/name.xml" "c:/documents and settings/dan/my documents/_filing cabinet/dm2/xslt/dm1file2.xsl" cd\
I've looked for help but not seen anything relevant. Any suggestions? -dan
I have installed some new software, but the problem predates that--and my spy and virus software is running and up-to-date. I have been wondering if that's maybe the issue, though if it is it seems to be buried deeper than spybot and norton can find. I've also backed up a couple of restore points, so my system should be operating as it was last week sometime.
The reason I asked on the list was to see if there was a common issue I wasn't aware of before I start really ripping things apart to find the problem.
The problem seems to manifesting itself in very interesting ways: firefox reads the directory the java is writing; ie and opera change the directory name to the expected form (with spaces). Since the two directories are out of sync, it means that files written by my java are now invisible to opera and ie.
Thanks Peter. It is days (I hope) til I dumpt the whole windows thing and get with Linux. Well maybe weeks.
-dan
Peter Baker wrote:
Dan,
I'm no Windows expert (of course), but the first things the techs here ask when I have trouble with my Win98 machine is have you run the anti-virus program, and have you run the anti-spyware programs? I also wonder if you've installed any system software or performed any system updates lately, or installed or updated any software that might have updated system files. Is it just files written by Java, or other files that are causing problems (and have you updated your Java lately)? Are there any symptoms beyond the one obvious one--the use of URL-encoded names rather than names with spaces?
Peter
Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
The Digital Medievalist List (see end of message for contact information and project URLs).
Hello all, I'm having a weird windows problem I wonder if anybody knows anything about: all of a sudden programs that work from the dos prompt at having difficulty with long file and folder names. I.e. when I try to write to the directory "My Documents" (actually c:\Documents and Settings\Dan\My Documents), the files actually get written to a separate directory, c:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Dan\My%20Documents which appears along side the other in the file tree. The contents of this new directory to not map onto the "My Documents" directory. They are separate. This problem has arisen in the last week or so, and it is affecting bat files that were working fine until recently. Here's an example of the syntax I've been using:
cd\saxon6_5_3 java -jar saxon.jar -o "c:/documents and settings/dan/my documents/_filing cabinet/dm2/3.revised/name/name.htm" "c:/documents and settings/dan/my documents/_filing cabinet/dm2/3.revised/name/name.xml" "c:/documents and settings/dan/my documents/_filing cabinet/dm2/xslt/dm1file2.xsl" cd\
I've looked for help but not seen anything relevant. Any suggestions? -dan
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