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From: JF Mezei on 10 May 2010 19:18 Mike Lane wrote: > I agree, it's a bug in the Garmin unit. But since it exists one either has to > discard the gps unit, or work around it. Does FAT 16 allow directories/files with weird names ? Those devices don't have a fancy file system and fancy software for filenames. So it is within the real of acceptable that they would choke when they are presented with filenames that they don't expect. The fact is that one should be able to mount a foreign file system without having the Finder put its junk all over it.
From: doublePlusPaleo on 10 May 2010 23:44 On 2010-05-11 00:22:22 +1000, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> said: >> >> Those files perpetually gave me the shits too. I was getting >> ".DS_Store" files magically appearing in my Eclipse projects and some >> inevitably found their way into deployment packages to cause various >> kinds of strange errors at deployment time. >> >> The problem was fixed in my case by switching to the Windows Eclipse >> platform for Java software development. > > Talk about overkill. : ) All you needed to do was remove those files > from packages before deploying them. More anger than straight out overkill. It was just a matter of powering up my Windows development system and a minute or so to rsynch the projects over. I realized soon enough what the problem was, but not before I had cost actual money to have someone visit the test site. I was going to switch the development over to Windows anyway, because the next phase involved porting an object model to .NET.
From: doublePlusPaleo on 10 May 2010 23:44 On 2010-05-11 07:53:06 +1000, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> said: > On 05-10-2010 10:22, Jolly Roger wrote: >> doublePlusPaleo<2PPaleo(a)godisdead.com> wrote: >>> The problem was fixed in my case by switching to the Windows Eclipse >>> platform for Java software development. >> >> Talk about overkill. : ) All you needed to do was remove those files >> from packages before deploying them. > > Or fix the design bug that causes your code to not ignore them. Nothing to do with code design at all. Deployment tools are a different animal.
From: Mike Lane on 11 May 2010 04:04
JF Mezei wrote on May 11, 2010: > Mike Lane wrote: > >> I agree, it's a bug in the Garmin unit. But since it exists one either >> has to discard the gps unit, or work around it. > > Does FAT 16 allow directories/files with weird names ? > > Those devices don't have a fancy file system and fancy software for > filenames. So it is within the real of acceptable that they would choke > when they are presented with filenames that they don't expect. > > The fact is that one should be able to mount a foreign file system > without having the Finder put its junk all over it. Also in defence of Garmin I should say the unit in question is a fairly old design which first came out well before they claimed any compatibility with Mac systems -- Mike Lane UK North Yorkshire email: mike_lane at mac dot com |