Re: Gremlins, huh?

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2000


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 35321
interpreted = N
texte = For what it's worth, we once had thousands of what BBEdit refers to as Gremlins in a site. Every week we added pages to the site, and we were about a year in before we noticed them. Certain versions of Navigator were interpreting them as end-of-file characters and were truncating the documents. Explorer had no difficulty with them. In the end, the source was Microsoft Word. It's paragraph returns were being translated into invisible 8-bit control characters.I'm just trying to add a data point here, and maybe suggest that WebCatalog isn't the only source of this problem.>What causes gremlins, or more specifically, do gremlins exist in the stores >created by Store Builder? I guess I am looking for reassurances that these >are unwanted characters that don't show up until I do SOMETHING I am not >supposed to. > >-- >Sincerely, >Bob Sneidar -- Regards,Christopher Mackay, Director of Technical Services Tantramar Interactive, http://www.tantramar.com/ 506/364-1097 cell: 364-7659 fax: 536-2409NEW! Tantramar Vistas: 360-degree photos of Tantramar. Posters, postcards and a book with bonus CD-ROM for Mac and Windows! On sale at http://www.tantramarpublishing.com/------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Gremlins, huh? (Christopher Mackay 2000)
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  3. Re: Gremlins, huh? (WebDNA Support 2000)
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  5. Gremlins, huh? (Bob Sneidar 2000)
For what it's worth, we once had thousands of what BBEdit refers to as Gremlins in a site. Every week we added pages to the site, and we were about a year in before we noticed them. Certain versions of Navigator were interpreting them as end-of-file characters and were truncating the documents. Explorer had no difficulty with them. In the end, the source was Microsoft Word. It's paragraph returns were being translated into invisible 8-bit control characters.I'm just trying to add a data point here, and maybe suggest that WebCatalog isn't the only source of this problem.>What causes gremlins, or more specifically, do gremlins exist in the stores >created by Store Builder? I guess I am looking for reassurances that these >are unwanted characters that don't show up until I do SOMETHING I am not >supposed to. > >-- >Sincerely, >Bob Sneidar -- Regards,Christopher Mackay, Director of Technical Services Tantramar Interactive, http://www.tantramar.com/ 506/364-1097 cell: 364-7659 fax: 536-2409NEW! Tantramar Vistas: 360-degree photos of Tantramar. Posters, postcards and a book with bonus CD-ROM for Mac and Windows! On sale at http://www.tantramarpublishing.com/------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Christopher Mackay

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