Konstantin v. Poschinger Oct 18 7:43 AM
> Thanks Bill,
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> the download didn't work now. What I found is, that when the ifile number, that if started with 0000 then gets to 0001 after one download. The image is in the Guide8 Folder but the image isn't shown when there had been already a image with the same number. The new Image also didn't get the .fit suffix and if you added the suffix you can place it by using Add DSS image...
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> Konstantin
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> Am 30.09.2010 um 19:31 schrieb Bill J Gray:
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>> Hi Konstantin,
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>> Ouch! Nicely caught. I'm very surprised that this bug hadn't
>> turned up before.
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>> A while back, somebody (might have been you?) pointed out that
>> Guide had trouble if there were more than 1000 DSS downloads,
>> because it stored them as four-digit files '0000.fit' through
>> '0999.fit'. I'd made two errors: that first digit never got
>> used, and I was working in base 10.
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>> I revised the code to use A-Z as well, so that we'd be
>> working in base 36 and could have 36^4 = 1.6 million files.
>> But I noticed you had three-digit file names; that caused me
>> to realize that, in some cases, a character could get left
>> out, and you'd see the issue you report. Yet another case of
>> "fixing a bug creates, on average, 1.1 new bugs". (Well,
>> one hopes to make it, on average, less than one bug, so
>> the series converges to zero. But sometimes, it does feel as
>> if the series is exponentially divergent.)
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>> This will be fixed in the next update I post. In the meantime,
>> if you edit the file 'ifile' in your Guide folder, and make the
>> first four characters 0000, all should be well.
>>
>> -- Bill
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