cant read CHM file in directory contains character #

In message , "Ken Blake,
MVP" writes:
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:43:06 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , "Ken Blake,
MVP" writes:
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:50:43 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:


Oops - hoised by my own petard!



I hate to correct misspellings, but since it's a quotation...

That's "hoist," not "hoised."

I've had this one out in another newsgroup. Do you know what a petard
is?


Yes, I do. A bomb. I looked it up many years ago.

Indeed - usually a small grenade, as might be used by a potential
assassin.

Hoised is indeed an archaic - arguably even obsolete - form of the
verb relating to what a petard does, but they don't hoist (lift with
rope[s]).



Perhaps so, but "hoist," not "hoised" is what Shakespeare wrote.
That's the way it's spelled in all the editions of Shakespeare I've
ever seen, including my two-volume New Variorum Edition of Hamlet.


I didn't know the quote was from old Shak.; however, I'd not rely on his
spelling to be consistent! (Or, to be fair, anyone from that period:
consistency in spelling dates from a somewhat later time.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

For this star a "night on the tiles" means winning at Scrabble - Kathy Lette
(on Kylie), RT 2014/1/11-17

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:30:03 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , "Ken Blake,
MVP" writes:
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:43:06 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , "Ken Blake,
MVP" writes:
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:50:43 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:


Oops - hoised by my own petard!



I hate to correct misspellings, but since it's a quotation...

That's "hoist," not "hoised."

I've had this one out in another newsgroup. Do you know what a petard
is?


Yes, I do. A bomb. I looked it up many years ago.

Indeed - usually a small grenade, as might be used by a potential
assassin.

Hoised is indeed an archaic - arguably even obsolete - form of the
verb relating to what a petard does, but they don't hoist (lift with
rope[s]).



Perhaps so, but "hoist," not "hoised" is what Shakespeare wrote.
That's the way it's spelled in all the editions of Shakespeare I've
ever seen, including my two-volume New Variorum Edition of Hamlet.


I didn't know the quote was from old Shak.; however, I'd not rely on his
spelling to be consistent!


True, but it doesn't matter. We're talking about how it was spelled in
a particular quotation from Hamlet, and that was "hoist."



(Or, to be fair, anyone from that period:
consistency in spelling dates from a somewhat later time.)


Certainly true, but also irrelevant.

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ...
In message , Hot-Text writes:
wrote in message ...
On Wednesday, 26 May 2004 11:22:47 UTC+5:30, EricTsai - ???v?? wrote:
Hi,
I found that if a chm file located in a directory,
and the absolute path of the directory contains any #,
I can open the chm file but can't see any content.

Name it to: Win2000.chm
If you see no content afterward
Because there no content in it
Not so. In the part you snipped, he said he _could_ see content in it if the path (not the filename) _didn't_ contain a #.

Here His
| Example:
|
| A win2000advsrvhelp.chm in D:\eBooks#\Win2000,
| then I can't see the content of the chm file.
| After I rename eBooks# to eBook,
| I can see the content.

Answer is
win2000advsrvhelp.chm is Link To..

Book Mark
#\Win2000,

eBooks CD on D: it's in HTML

With out the CD or HDD on D:
Book Mark's will not work

In message , "Ken Blake,
MVP" writes:
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:30:03 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , "Ken Blake,
MVP" writes:
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:43:06 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , "Ken Blake,
MVP" writes:
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 09:50:43 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:


Oops - hoised by my own petard!



I hate to correct misspellings, but since it's a quotation...

That's "hoist," not "hoised."

I've had this one out in another newsgroup. Do you know what a petard
is?


Yes, I do. A bomb. I looked it up many years ago.

Indeed - usually a small grenade, as might be used by a potential
assassin.

Hoised is indeed an archaic - arguably even obsolete - form of the
verb relating to what a petard does, but they don't hoist (lift with
rope[s]).



Perhaps so, but "hoist," not "hoised" is what Shakespeare wrote.
That's the way it's spelled in all the editions of Shakespeare I've
ever seen, including my two-volume New Variorum Edition of Hamlet.


I didn't know the quote was from old Shak.; however, I'd not rely on his
spelling to be consistent!


True, but it doesn't matter. We're talking about how it was spelled in
a particular quotation from Hamlet, and that was "hoist."

You may be, I certainly wasn't (-:!


(Or, to be fair, anyone from that period:
consistency in spelling dates from a somewhat later time.)


Certainly true, but also irrelevant.

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Have the courage to be ordinary - people make themselves so desperately unhappy
trying to be clever and totally original. (Robbie Coltrane, RT 8-14 Nov. 1997.)

In message , Hot-Text
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
...
In message , Hot-Text
writes:
wrote in message
...
On Wednesday, 26 May 2004 11:22:47 UTC+5:30, EricTsai - ???v?? wrote:
Hi,
I found that if a chm file located in a directory,
and the absolute path of the directory contains any #,
I can open the chm file but can't see any content.

Name it to: Win2000.chm
If you see no content afterward
Because there no content in it
Not so. In the part you snipped, he said he _could_ see content in it
if the path (not the filename) _didn't_ contain a #.

Here His
| Example:
|
| A win2000advsrvhelp.chm in D:\eBooks#\Win2000,
| then I can't see the content of the chm file.
| After I rename eBooks# to eBook,
| I can see the content.

Answer is
win2000advsrvhelp.chm is Link To..

Book Mark
#\Win2000,

eBooks CD on D: it's in HTML

With out the CD or HDD on D:
Book Mark's will not work


Nothing to do with HTML or CDs.

What I read the above as meaning is this:

D:\eBooks#\Win2000\win2000advsrvhelp.chm - he can't see any content; if
he renames it to D:\eBook\Win2000\win2000advsrvhelp.chm, he can. No
change to the filename (win2000advsrvhelp.chm), only the path.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Have the courage to be ordinary - people make themselves so desperately unhappy
trying to be clever and totally original. (Robbie Coltrane, RT 8-14 Nov. 1997.)

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ...
In message , Hot-Text writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ...
In message , Hot-Text writes:
wrote in message ...
On Wednesday, 26 May 2004 11:22:47 UTC+5:30, EricTsai - ???v?? wrote:
Hi,
I found that if a chm file located in a directory,
and the absolute path of the directory contains any #,
I can open the chm file but can't see any content.
Name it to: Win2000.chm
If you see no content afterward
Because there no content in it
Not so. In the part you snipped, he said he _could_ see content in it if the path (not the filename) _didn't_ contain a #.
Here His
| Example:
| A win2000advsrvhelp.chm in D:\eBooks#\Win2000,
| then I can't see the content of the chm file.
| After I rename eBooks# to eBook,
| I can see the content.
Answer is
win2000advsrvhelp.chm is Link To..
Book Mark
#\Win2000,
eBooks CD on D: it's in HTML
With out the CD or HDD on D:
Book Mark's will not work
Nothing to do with HTML or CDs.
What I read the above as meaning is this:

D:\eBooks#\Win2000\win2000advsrvhelp.chm - he can't see any content; if he renames it to D:\eBook\Win2000\win2000advsrvhelp.chm,
he can. No change to the filename (win2000advsrvhelp.chm), only the path.

On a 64-bit operating system Windows 7
I have a 32-bit

Ok Folder Name from eBook# to eBook

TEST: D:\Virtual_MS-Dos622\steak\newFolder#
I can View all file in Folder

Test 2: Hidden newFolder#
I can View all file in Folder

On rename Hidden to newFolder
I can View all file in Folder

Here Info for 64-bit operating systems

MS05-026:
A vulnerability in HTML Help
could allow remote code execution

THINGS TO TRY
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896358
Changes to HTML Help in security update 896358

"Rasta Robert" wrote in message ...
On 2014-02-14, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message ,
writes:
On Wednesday, 26 May 2004 11:22:47 UTC+5:30, EricTsai - 0 Hi,
Eric posted that if there's a # in the pathname, he can't see the
content. Since he's already worked out that it's the # that causes the
problem, I would guess he _knows_ the "solution" you suggested.
(Note - it isn't the _filename_, but the _path_, at least in the example
given.)
Eric: not that it's a solution to the problem, but does the same happen
if you use "subst" or "Map Network Drive" to point to it? (I know this
sounds like the same sort of "solution" as bhabanisb's, but the answer
_might_ help someone else address the problem.)

Almost ten years after posting the original post, Eric
probably isn't waiting for answers anymore.

Good one after one year

Viewing Downloaded CHM Files
RobCaron 23 Jun 2005 4:30 PM
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