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Re: CiderPress file name requirements

Bill Garber wrote:

<heuser.marcus@freenet.de> wrote in message
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: Bill Garber wrote:
: >
: > I, too, have had trouble with Ciderpress opening shrinkit archives
: > from read-only media. Copy them to hard drive and they will work.
: >
: > I'm also curious as to the reason this is. Andy?????
:
:
: Maybe because CP opens a temporary work file in the same directory?
:
: bye
: Marcus


Ah, yes, that is most likely it. Thanks, Marcus.


Yep--I'd noticed this behavior, but guessed that it would
have a "backup" for the read-only case.

And sure enough, it fails on the hard disk, too, if the type
suffix is .txt--so that's not it.

-michael

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