TB: FANCY TALES and OT: URLs
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- Subject: TB: FANCY TALES and OT: URLs
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- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 22:51:06 -0500 (CDT)
> Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 02:03:41 -0000
> From: Lazycat@hyperaction.net
> Subject: Fancy Tails
>
> I'm looking for a tall bearded Iris called Fancy Tails , can you help
> me find this , does any of the members have it ?
I believe you mean FANCY TALES ... which was in the Schreiners catalog
for a couple of years a couple of years back, but I haven't seen since.
It rotted TWICE for me, though the picture was very pretty and I
would not mind trying it again.
If anyone knows of a source let me know too.
> > If you can't get that to work try: http://206.58.78.197/signa/. That's
> > what
> > the bigfoot address sends you to. Let me know if it still doesn't work.
> >
>
> The above worked fine, as did Amy's suggestion to drop the period off the
> bigfoot URL. I notice the above worked though,
> even with a period at the end of it!
I will explain this just in case any of you like to know the details...
the above URL substitutes a fixed (hard-coded) IP address for
DLCI197.bvi1.coho.net (not www.bigfoot.com, but obviously this
is another site with the information). The crucial difference
between the URL that didn't work and the one above is:
~signa.
vs
~signa/.
The first is going to look for a user's home directory -- the user
with the name "signa." . Since the user's name is "signa" and
not "signa." you get the error that the user is not known.
~signa/. means this: look for the user signa's home directory, then
look for the path "/." relative to that home directory. So it
looks in signa's home directory... and stays there, which is
exactly what you want. A path of "." means the current directory.
A path of ".." means the parent directory, so that if the directory
~signa/temp existed, you could do tricks like http://www.bigfoot.com/
~signa/temp/.. and that would work -- it would go to signa's home
directory, go to the temp directory, and then go to its parent
directory -- which is ~signa ... so you are home free.
--Amy, operating systems engineer
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