[softwarelist] Re: Scanning software oddity

In message <4efc1f7127rkp@xxxxxxxxx>
          Richard Partridge <rkp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For a long time now I've been accusing my wife of being careless when
> saving files, as she often leaves unwanted copies of JPEGs in the
> root directory of our Iyonix. She has now found out how it happens; I
> have been maligning her!

> If we load a graphic into David Pilling's Scanning Software, and then
> save it as a JPEG by dragging into an Ovation Pro frame (or Artworks,
> or Easiwriter), the drag works fine, but a copy of the JPEG is also
> made in the root directory of the hard disk; at the same time, the
> file name in the DPSS window is changed to <Wimp$Scrap>. This does
> not happen if the file is transferred as a Sprite, nor of course if
> the modified JPEG is saved to hard disk and loaded to Ovation Pro
> from there.

> I would have gone on accusing my beloved of carelessness had she not
> transferred a JPEG which happened to be called "Route" (no suffix).
> If you dare, just try putting a file called "Route" into your root
> directory, and see what happens when you re-boot - but be warned; it
> took me two days to find what had gone wrong and wipe the offending
> file. Congratulations to anyone who knows the operating system well
> enough to predict the effect.

At a guess the Internet software tries to interpret it as a definition 
of static routes. I can't imagine what the consequences would be 
though.

> DPSS 1.24 (I've also checked v1.18). Iyonix on RISC OS 5.11.

> Regards,

> Richard Partridge.



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Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
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http://www.nckc.org.uk/

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