Craig, No worries, It wasn't you. And besides, my message was just to inform everyone what happened so that we can avoid the problem in the future. :-)
Michael At 09:46 AM 4/12/2005, you wrote: >Michael, > >I hope I wasn't the one that caused this when I was working with the >scheduler for the first time yesterday. If so, I'm extremely sorry. > >Craig > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Michael Miller [mailto:mimil...@ncsa.uiuc.edu] >Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:36 AM >To: ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov >Subject: [AG-TECH] NCSA AG 2 Venues Server trouble > >Hello Everyone, > >Yesterday and today we experienced problems with the NCSA AG 2 Venues >Server availability. The problem was caused by a file with Extended ASCII >characters in it's name. I believe the character is used in Word to >signify "smartquotes". The SOAP implementation that the AGtk is built on >does not handle these characters and the Enter Venue function fails. > >Please be careful what characters are used in filenames and shared >application instances. Valid characters are ASCII 0-127 and you can find a >table here: >http://www.lookuptables.com/ > >You'll probably want to avoid anything lower than "SPACE" (Dec=32 Hex=20) >as I don't believe they are on the typical keyboard. And ASCII 127 is "DEL". > >Many character sets from other languages use ASCII codes beyond >127. Please be careful to find out from your participants if they are >using a character set other than the standard ASCII set. > >Hopefully, what I've mentioned here makes sense, if others have suggestions >to clarify, please do. > >We apologize for any inconvenience. > >Thanx, > >Michael Miller >System Engineer >Video Technology Services >Persistent Infrastructure Directorate >National Center for Supercomputing Applications >University of Illinois - UC >217-649-0747 > >"If you're clear in your vision and trust the people in your team with >clear objectives, they will invariably do their best to achieve everything >desired, and usually deliver everything you could have hoped for and even >more." -Paul Debevec
