screens other than 0-9 (was: Re: Windows 2003/IIS 6issues...newand improved ones.)

Bob Stockler bob at trebor.iglou.com
Fri May 25 07:20:41 PDT 2007


Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote (on Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:09:44PM -0400):

| Ken Brody propounded (on Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:26:23PM -0400):
| | Quoting Jean-Pierre A. Radley (Thu, 24 May 2007 18:43:01 -0400):
| | 
| | > Bill Randall propounded (on Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:04:52AM -0400):
| | [...]
| | > | PFDIRFILTER=ON will fix that.
| | >
| | > Half-assedly.  That setting eliminates listing plain FILES, but ANY
| | > DIRECTORIES still show up, even if they lack a map or key or data file,
| | > IOW directories which do NOT contain map. key, screens, etc.
| | 
| | Well, how much filtering should filePro do?  Should it list only those
| | directories which contain a file named "map"?  Should it actually open
| | the map and verify that it's valid?  Should it scan all of the drives
| | to see if there is a valid "key" somewhere?
| 
| It should do what it's doing now.  People who store non-filePro files
| under PFDIR should do so with their eyes open, and not expect much more
| that the current situation.
| 
| I myself have a couple of scripts inside valid filePro directories, and
| if I ever run setperms, I have to remember to restore the execute bits on
| those scripts.

I think the latest version of setperms has your edits to it,
so that it doesn't mess with non-filePro files.

Bob

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