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- From: lindner@danzig.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner)
- Subject: Re: Using .cap files and the "Path" line
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.002843.7084@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:28:43 GMT
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- In <6792@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> zlsiimw@mcchpc.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby) writes:
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- >|> This works insofar as the name appears in the gopher client. However,
- >|> when I try to actually retrieve the document, it responds with
- >|>
- >|> OServer error: /afs/pitt.edu/public/info/pittdocblah-blah.doc' does
- >|> not exist!! error.host 1
- >|>
- >|> The file exists just fine. I've tried a whole lotta combinations with
- >|> this. The file is world readable, and it behaves just the same whether
- >|> or not it is in afs.
-
- >I don't think you can do this. The pathname in the Path= line is relative
- >to your gopher home directory (and so cannot be outside the gother tree).
- >Try creating a file called blah-blah.doc in the directory
- >/usr/gopher/data/afs/pitt.edu/public/info/pittdoc
- >and see what happens. I don't know if you can access stuff outside the
- >gopher tree.
-
-
- If you run with the -c option you can create symbolic links outside
- the gopher-tree. Works fine.
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- | Paul Lindner | lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu | Slipping into madness
- | | Computer & Information Services | is good for the sake
- | Gophermaster | University of Minnesota | of comparision.
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