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SLUT distibution mangled?

Hi,
I was trying to download and install the latest SLUT (0.9.0) from
http://slut.sourceforge.net/download/index.html
and it seems both the zip and the tar.gz files are corrupted - the
directory "aux" and the files within can not be extracted (using
windows BTW). This happened with both the zip _and_ the tar.gz file.
The strange thing is: even when I'm trying to create a directory 'aux'
by myself it is not possible!
Anyone here ever encountered this problem?

Thank you in advance,
Ido Yehieli.

Jan 28 '06 #1
7 1128
OKl, sorry this seems to have nothing to do with SLUT it self, for some
reason a directory names 'aux' can not be created... most bizzare.
"mkdir aux" just returns "The directory name is invalid."

Jan 28 '06 #2
Ido Yehieli wrote:
OKl, sorry this seems to have nothing to do with SLUT it self, for some
reason a directory names 'aux' can not be created... most bizzare.
"mkdir aux" just returns "The directory name is invalid."


on windows ?

win32 reserves the file names CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1,
COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2,
LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 for devices.

</F>

Jan 28 '06 #3
So I can't run SLUT on windows then?

Jan 28 '06 #4
"Ido Yehieli" <Id*********@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11**********************@f14g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
So I can't run SLUT on windows then?

Well, here's what I did (I'm running on WinXP).

1. Opened up slut.zip with a text editor (used Scite.exe), and changed all
of the "/aux" references to "/bux"
2. Expanded the ZIP file.
3. Renamed /bux folder to /auxx (/aux is not allowed)

It turns out the this folder only contains a separate GIF builder utility,
so I think this is not a critical part of the software.

-- Paul
Jan 29 '06 #5
"Paul McGuire" <pt***@austin.rr._bogus_.com> wrote in message
news:Uw****************@tornado.texas.rr.com...
"Ido Yehieli" <Id*********@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:11**********************@f14g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
So I can't run SLUT on windows then?

Well, here's what I did (I'm running on WinXP).

1. Opened up slut.zip with a text editor (used Scite.exe), and changed all
of the "/aux" references to "/bux"
2. Expanded the ZIP file.
3. Renamed /bux folder to /auxx (/aux is not allowed)

It turns out the this folder only contains a separate GIF builder utility,
so I think this is not a critical part of the software.

-- Paul

Oh, you also have to modify setup.py, to change the reference to slut.aux
package to slut.auxx.

-- Paul
Jan 29 '06 #6
ok, Thanks Paul!

Jan 29 '06 #7
Actually when you remember the ancient history of Windows and MS/DOS
you will see why. That filename, and a lot of others (as noted by
Fredrik) are legacies of that time. They were special filenames (think
"/dev/null") that related to specific devices.

Gives us a good example of one of the little "gotchas" involved in
cross platform development.

Rob

Jan 29 '06 #8

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