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From: Ron Bauerle <>
Subject: Re: Re: [FreeHelp] Subdirectories
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 21:15:47 -0500 (EST)


>From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <>
>Sent: March 6, 2000 10:00:44 PM GMT

>> Ron's problem file:
>> >> >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bauerle/altman/george.jpg
>> >>
>> I'm not sure you're *quite* right either. Ron thought he was *moving* the
>> file george.jpg to a subdirectory named altman by renaming the file,
>> altman/george.jpg. I think the file was not *moved* to a subdirectory, but
>> just renamed to something that the server cannot recognize and spit back
>> out.

>It is possible to rename files using the online file manager as I have
>posted. I do not know how Ron "renamed" it, but the file

> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bauerle/altman/george.jpg

>does exist, but it is NOT a JPEG file.

>Netscape shows a "broken image" icon because the file extension SAYS it's
>JPEG but the JPEG subroutine can't interpret it. View Source reveals that
>the file appears to contain a garbled copy of an HTTP "file not found"
>error (404).

Not sure how you can tell that - it looks like binary gibberish to me when I
view source, but anyway, I think I found the problem - it seems to actually be
a TIFF file, and apparently Netscape can't display those (though I was able to
display a few in my Unix directory, but then I tried again and they wouldn't
work). Apparently Unix programs imageview and xv can handle TIFF files and
don't care about the file extension; the latter it what told me it was a TIFF
file, so I resaved it as JPG and can now view it; I reloaded it to RW as:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bauerle/altman/george1.jpg

Thanks anyway for the help,

Ron

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