Re: Admin: a suggestion on the script corruption problem.
Re: Admin: a suggestion on the script corruption problem.
- Subject: Re: Admin: a suggestion on the script corruption problem.
- From: Craig Sutherland <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 17:48:38 -0600
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Well, that depends on what you need to do. I forgot to mention this
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initially, but part of my scheme is to introduce an extra preference that
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says, in essence, "decompile using straight ASCII." (I have yet to figure
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out some way to express this that won't completely befuddle novices.)
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If you're just copying scripts from the list, it wouldn't matter which way
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you have the switch set, because the compiler will understand both the ASCII
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and non-ASCII versions all the time. If you want to post scripts, though,
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you'd turn the switch on, and your scripts would show up using only ASCII
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characters.
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Chris,
I would think that by the time a user gets to the point of posting scripts to a list the terminology would not be an obstacle. Posting scripts as a part of "Here's the script I wrote, why doesn't it work." requires a level of interest that could handle the type of explanation you mentioned.
Craig Sutherland