[PlanetCCRMA] Re:Snd help bug

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Tue Nov 20 18:43:00 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 22:28 +0000, joey.a wrote:
> > > I also managed to open Snd whose basic help did work. However, none of
> the
> > > related help did, giving e.g. Firefox cannot find the file at
> > > file:///snd.html#etc . (Surely that must be a bug which can be easily
> fixed,
> > > if you know where these files are supposed to be located?)
> >
> > You should be able to get to its manual in a browser by pointing to:
> >   file:///usr/share/doc/snd-9.1/snd.html
> >
> > This is probably a packaging problem, I have to take a look at it.
> 
> The addresses of the related topics have clearly been listed as relative,
> but interpreted as absolute. In HTML, at least, this problem is caused by
> inserting a single slash to the left of the relative address. The solution
> is simple. Exclude the slash, or include the physical path. In server side
> Visual Basic (ASP), this merely requires correcting the relevant single line
> of coding which serves up each instance of the list. Hopefully, the solution
> is equally simple here.

It was a bug in snd, the Fedora 8 package has a fix, I'll release
updated versions for the other distro versions in a few days (too busy
right now). 

Thanks for the report! (and sorry it took me so long to get to it). 

-- Fernando