On 2/10/2011 12:53 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Patrick Shanahan said the following on 02/10/2011 03:26 PM:
* Marc Chamberlin
[02-10-11 14:01]: And he decides to bring up the map file using Xemacs, and damned if there weren't some non-printing characters embedded in that file. Dunno how they got there, and kwrite was not showing them to me... Sigh... Removed em and all started working as expected... Hint, kwrite is not a :text-editor".
Graphics/GUI is *not* always better (er, ever). ROTFL!
So it wasn't Evil USBs after all ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/nov/15/3
No, it wasn't an evil USB, it was poorly organized documentation, the nfsserver failing to guide or tell a user that he/she was trying to do something that would not work i.e. trying to mount a filesystem without also mounting the parent filesystem, intolerance of a newcomers inability to quickly comprehend a wide range of concepts and to rapidly sift though vast amounts of documentation in order to find a trinket of information necessary to solve this problem, an editor that failed to properly warn a user about embedded non-printing characters, a parser somewhere in autofs that failed to properly warn a user about embedded non-printing characters in a configuration file, a mount process that failed to tell the user that it could not perform it's task because it encountered those same non-printing characters, or perhaps because those non-printing characters were being interpreted as part of a file system name that was not being exported and by that same mount process simply hanging until a timeout occurred without any explanation whatsoever... or perhaps there are some gremlins embedded in openSuSE/Linux somewhere.... Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org