I think Tim had it right. Assuming you did a cut & paste of the file names and error messages, they would indicate a problem due to case sensitivity. Note the upper case characters in the error message verses the upper and lower case version of the file names you listed.
file:///media/Mar%2031%202006/BW_syncon/*c*hapter%2076%20-%20*V*erb%20*P* article%20*C*onstructions.xml "*C*hapter 75 - *V*erb *p*article *c*onstructions.xml." You might be able to fix this by copying the contents of the CD to your hard drive and renaming the offending file, to match what the application is expecting. - Jason On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:35 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:50:02 -0700 > > Tim <[email protected]> dijo: > > >It is possible that the index XML file is trying to pull in other > >files on the CD by name and is breaking because of a case-difference. > >In Windows, of course, files can be accessed case-insensitively, but > >Linux doesn't work that way, so if a file is referenced with an > >inconsistent case, it won't find it. The work-around there would be > >copying the directory tree out and fixing the broken references, which > >is a pain of course. If you look in firefox at the error console, it > >might tell you what files it wants that aren't found. > > > >Just a hypothesis... > > Well, I have a partial solution, although it leaves questions > unanswered. > > I have Windows 2000 installed in Virtualbox on my Fedora 14 x86_64 > computer. So I fired it up and opened the Contents.htm file by just > double clicking on the file. This opened it in Internet Explorer. I > navigated to the Chapter 76 ... .xml file link and clicked on it. This > opened the link in a new IE window, and it appeared readable and > without code junk. > > I made a printout of it, so now I have a legible hard copy. The only > problem is that the chapter in the paper version of the book is 22 > pages and the file I made a printout of is 55 pages. So if I ever want > to quote the work I am in trouble with page numbers. But at least now I > can read it. > > The unanswered question is why Firefox, Opera and Konqueror would > display the contents by clicking on Contents.htm (the same as IE in > Win2000), but would not correctly open the resulting link to Chapter > 76. Your hypothesis that Contents.xml is trying to pull in other files > on the CD and failing is certainly plausible. And the case sensitivity > is a good theory as well, since it happens equally with three different > browsers on Fedora. But I wonder if MacOS is also case sensitive. If > so, that throws out the case sensitivity theory, since (presumably) it > works on a Mac. > > The error could also be javascript. The link in Contents.htm is: > > javascript:makewindow('Chapter 75 - Verb Particle Constructions.xml') > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
