I have just downloaded the dvd from ibiblio and there seems to be a problem with the index.htm in the access directory. Here is an excerpt to illustrate the problem: <A HREF="gtnletC.htm#cooperja">James Fenimore Cooper</A> The file refered to on the dvd is actually gtnletc.htm and this error is propagated throughout the index. The gtnanon.htm file is correctly linked but the links for the others are not. This may not be a problem on a windows machine but it is on a case sensitive filesystem. The download file was 10802.iso, the file date is Nov 22, 2003. It should be fairly trivial to fix. Two ways to correct this are change the hotlinks in access/index.htm or change the filenames in that directory to agree. Either way it would mean opening the iso for editing to make the repair then correcting the md5sum to match. Is this something that has already been looked at?
I have just downloaded the dvd from ibiblio and there seems to be a problem with the index.htm in the access directory. Here is an excerpt to illustrate the problem:
<A HREF="gtnletC.htm#cooperja">James Fenimore Cooper</A>
The file refered to on the dvd is actually gtnletc.htm and this error is propagated throughout the index. The gtnanon.htm file is correctly linked but the links for the others are not. This may not be a problem on a windows machine but it is on a case sensitive filesystem.
You don't say on what sort of system you had mounted the DVD. Is it possible the DVD has Joliet or Rock Ridge extensions but they are not being read by your system? If there are no such extensions (and indeed they would seem to be against PG philosophy of least common denominator), I would expect the OS should treat the ISO9660 filesystem as case-insensitive; it's often translated anyhow (e.g. filenames usually show up as lowercase on my Linux box). Of course, I haven't validated this behaviour as either required or actually implemented ;) but if the filenames are to be corrected due to case sensitivity making them all caps would, I believe, be more accurate. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 01:20:34AM -0500, bill jenness wrote:
I have just downloaded the dvd from ibiblio and there seems to be a problem with the index.htm in the access directory. Here is an excerpt to illustrate the problem:
<A HREF="gtnletC.htm#cooperja">James Fenimore Cooper</A>
The file refered to on the dvd is actually gtnletc.htm and this error is propagated throughout the index. The gtnanon.htm file is correctly linked but the links for the others are not. This may not be a problem on a windows machine but it is on a case sensitive filesystem. The download file was 10802.iso, the file date is Nov 22, 2003. It should be fairly trivial to fix.
Two ways to correct this are change the hotlinks in access/index.htm or change the filenames in that directory to agree. Either way it would mean opening the iso for editing to make the repair then correcting the md5sum to match.
Is this something that has already been looked at?
This is a a known problem. It's on the list, with a few other things, to fix in the next iteration of an ISO image. I keep thinking I'm going to roll out a brand new ISO, but it hasn't happened yet. Meanwhile, for most people, just editing the index.htm to all lower-case is a good "quick hack" solution - assuming you've copied all the files to your hard drive. Something like this: cp index.htm /tmp/oldindex.htm cat /tmp/oldindex.htm | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' > index.htm -- Greg
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