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  • Ido Yehieli
    #1

    SLUT distibution mangled?

    Hi,
    I was trying to download and install the latest SLUT (0.9.0) from
    [SLUT]
    http://slut.sourceforge.net/download/index.html

    and it seems both the zip and the tar.gz files are corrupted - the
    directory "aux" and the files within can not be extracted (using
    windows BTW). This happened with both the zip _and_ the tar.gz file.
    The strange thing is: even when I'm trying to create a directory 'aux'
    by myself it is not possible!
    Anyone here ever encountered this problem?

    Thank you in advance,
    Ido Yehieli.

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    • Ido Yehieli
      #2
      Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

      OKl, sorry this seems to have nothing to do with SLUT it self, for some
      reason a directory names 'aux' can not be created... most bizzare.
      "mkdir aux" just returns "The directory name is invalid."

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        • Fredrik Lundh
          #3
          Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

          Ido Yehieli wrote:
          [color=blue]
          > OKl, sorry this seems to have nothing to do with SLUT it self, for some
          > reason a directory names 'aux' can not be created... most bizzare.
          > "mkdir aux" just returns "The directory name is invalid."[/color]

          on windows ?

          win32 reserves the file names CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1,
          COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2,
          LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 for devices.

          </F>



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            • Ido Yehieli
              #4
              Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

              So I can't run SLUT on windows then?

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                • Paul McGuire
                  #5
                  Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

                  "Ido Yehieli" <Ido.Yehieli@gm ail.com> wrote in message
                  news:1138487092 .992012.217660@ f14g2000cwb.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=blue]
                  > So I can't run SLUT on windows then?
                  >[/color]
                  Well, here's what I did (I'm running on WinXP).

                  1. Opened up slut.zip with a text editor (used Scite.exe), and changed all
                  of the "/aux" references to "/bux"
                  2. Expanded the ZIP file.
                  3. Renamed /bux folder to /auxx (/aux is not allowed)

                  It turns out the this folder only contains a separate GIF builder utility,
                  so I think this is not a critical part of the software.

                  -- Paul


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                    • Paul McGuire
                      #6
                      Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

                      "Paul McGuire" <ptmcg@austin.r r._bogus_.com> wrote in message
                      news:UwTCf.6784 $jO.4796@tornad o.texas.rr.com. ..[color=blue]
                      > "Ido Yehieli" <Ido.Yehieli@gm ail.com> wrote in message
                      > news:1138487092 .992012.217660@ f14g2000cwb.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=green]
                      > > So I can't run SLUT on windows then?
                      > >[/color]
                      > Well, here's what I did (I'm running on WinXP).
                      >
                      > 1. Opened up slut.zip with a text editor (used Scite.exe), and changed all
                      > of the "/aux" references to "/bux"
                      > 2. Expanded the ZIP file.
                      > 3. Renamed /bux folder to /auxx (/aux is not allowed)
                      >
                      > It turns out the this folder only contains a separate GIF builder utility,
                      > so I think this is not a critical part of the software.
                      >
                      > -- Paul
                      >
                      >[/color]
                      Oh, you also have to modify setup.py, to change the reference to slut.aux
                      package to slut.auxx.

                      -- Paul


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                        • Ido Yehieli
                          #7
                          Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

                          ok, Thanks Paul!

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                            • Rob Wolfe
                              #8
                              Re: SLUT distibution mangled?

                              Actually when you remember the ancient history of Windows and MS/DOS
                              you will see why. That filename, and a lot of others (as noted by
                              Fredrik) are legacies of that time. They were special filenames (think
                              "/dev/null") that related to specific devices.

                              Gives us a good example of one of the little "gotchas" involved in
                              cross platform development.

                              Rob

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