Re: Template transformed itself into a database?
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 17280
interpreted = N
texte = >>How can this be? Was I doing something wrong to let this happen? Is it a >>no-no to flush the template cache and commit databases while they're open >>on the desktop? I was using my 8600 for the browser, and using Timbuktu (on >>the 8600) to diddle with the actual pages on the 7350 across the room. >>SimpleText was the text editor. The web server is running WebStar 2.1 and >>sys 8.1; the 8600 is running sys 7.5.5. > >We have not seen anything like this happen before, but it may be an >interaction between SimpleText and the filesystem as you suspect. I can >*imagine* that telling any program to close/flush a file that is already >open in SimpleText would somehow confuse the filesystem into bumping its >index into the next file in the list. We use BBEdit most often here, which >always closes the file after reading it.There's a great replacement to SimpleText available at InfoMac, and it's called Tex-Edit. It closes the file immediately after reading it -- just like BBEdit -- and it can open large files too, unlike SimpleText. It also has some other cool features I use (and that BBEdit doesn't offer) ... thus my reason for continuing to use it for the bulk of my WebDNA coding work.Sincerely, Ken Grome 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions mailto:ken@webdna.net http://www.webdna.net
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>>How can this be? Was I doing something wrong to let this happen? Is it a >>no-no to flush the template cache and commit databases while they're open >>on the desktop? I was using my 8600 for the browser, and using Timbuktu (on >>the 8600) to diddle with the actual pages on the 7350 across the room. >>SimpleText was the text editor. The web server is running WebStar 2.1 and >>sys 8.1; the 8600 is running sys 7.5.5. > >We have not seen anything like this happen before, but it may be an >interaction between SimpleText and the filesystem as you suspect. I can >*imagine* that telling any program to close/flush a file that is already >open in SimpleText would somehow confuse the filesystem into bumping its >index into the next file in the list. We use BBEdit most often here, which >always closes the file after reading it.There's a great replacement to SimpleText available at InfoMac, and it's called Tex-Edit. It closes the file immediately after reading it -- just like BBEdit -- and it can open large files too, unlike SimpleText. It also has some other cool features I use (and that BBEdit doesn't offer) ... thus my reason for continuing to use it for the bulk of my WebDNA coding work.Sincerely, Ken Grome 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions mailto:ken@webdna.net http://www.webdna.net
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