[plucker-list] New slashpluck available : Troble on MSW Solved

[Edward Rayl]

>      $pluckerdir = "\Program Files\Plucker\Default.DB";

This was the major problem I had.  It turns out that a backslash, if used, has to be escaped.  So for the above to work, it has to be: c:\\Program Files\\Plucker\\Default.DB.  Doing this got things working properly.  BUT...
your readme suggestion using forward slashes works as well.  So I'm not sure what I was doing wrong initially.

That's strange.  It should instead read:

       <p><a href="plucker:/Default.DB/slashpluck/1.html">Going Back To The
       Past of the Internet</a>

You are right, this works just fine for the Plucker browser.  It does obviously break things for a windows browser, but that is OK.

I don't think it's a problem with the space, or with the parser; the
generated html is bad before it ever gets to the parser.

Again, spaces were not the problem, but my use of unescaped backslashes.  So now my home.html has this line:

<p><a href="plucker:/Default.DB/slashpluck/headlines.html" maxdepth=2>Slashdot</a></p>

and plucker.ini has:

doc_file=channels/Homepage/Homepage
home_url=file:C:\Program Files\Plucker\channels\Homepage\home.html
before_command=perl "C:\Program Files\Plucker\slashpluck-0.20\slashpluck.pl"

The only way I could get the before_command to work was to add perl to my path.  The before_comand will not allow spaces in the fully qualified path to perl.  So you can NOT use this:

before_command="C:\Program Files\ActivePerl\Perl\bin\perl.exe" "C:\Program Files\Plucker\slashpluck-0.20\slashpluck.pl"

With or without the quotes.

slashpluck.pl now has:

$pluckerdir = "c:/Program Files/Plucker/Default.DB";
$web_directory = "plucker:/Default.DB/slashpluck";

And all this is working.  Notice the interesting mix of forward slashes and back slashes!  Only on Windows :-(.

On a minor note, slashpluck.pl generates a headlines.html with a line that reads:

<img src="javascript:void(0);" width=100 height=34 border=0 alt="Slashdot.org">

Yet this .gif does not exist in that directory.  I made one and added it.  This gives me the nice graphic banner at the top.
 
 

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