Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on 06/17/07 20:51

On 2007-06-17, Dave Kelly wrote:
> Dave Kelly wrote:
>> Would someone look here and tell me why these images do not display.
>> http://www.texasflyfishers.org/images/HarryCCI.htm
>> Thanks.
>> Dave
>>
>>
> Would like to thank everyone for reminding an old man to do his homework
> before raising his hand and asking for help.
>
> Also to chastise me sternly for forgetting that I had almost the same
> problem last week and figured it out myself.
>
> Do have a question. Is it the 'html' code that has trouble reading the
> file name with the embedded line feed? I ask that because on a linux
> system, both 'gwenview' and 'display' read and displayed those images
> without any problems.

While any character except a slash and NUL (ASCII 0) are
permissible in a Unix file name, portability is not guaranteed
unless only characters in the Portable Filename Character Set
(letters, numbers, underscore, hyphen and dot) are used:

<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_276>

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Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

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