[15388] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.1.8: Xess (spreadsheet)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Fri Aug 15 11:05:20 1997
To: Julia K Steinberger <julias@MIT.EDU>
Cc: 3partysw@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:38:44 EDT."
<199708142038.QAA00461@m37-312-19.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 11:05:14 EDT
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Hi, Julia.
I just tried running Xess and saving a file. I had no trouble with it
making a new file.
Let me suggest that you may want to check with OLC (the consultants)
or with OLH (on-line help). About the only thing I can think of is
that perhaps you are having trouble with acl's or quota, but I don't
see how either one of these would cause the trouble you saw.
As for renaming your import files, there are several ways in UNIX to
do that fairly simply. The basic tcsh form might be something like:
foreach _a (myfiles)
mv $_a "$_a".tsv
end
myfiles could be a regular expression (*.txt or [a-z]?? or whatever)
specifying the files names.
Thank you for reporting this.
Mike Barker
Team Leader, Team Athena
:) -- using template mhl.format --
:) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:38:44 EDT
:) To: bugs@MIT.EDU
:)
:) From: Julia K Steinberger <julias@MIT.EDU>
:) Subject: sun4 8.1.8: Xess (spreadsheet)
:)
:)
:) System name: m37-312-19
:) Type and version: SPARC/4 8.1.8
:) Display type: cgthree
:)
:) What were you trying to do?
:)
:) import and subsequently save files
:)
:) What's wrong:
:)
:) import: it won't import something unless the file is renamed
:) blah.tsv (tab seperated value), which is very tedious
:) if one has many files of the correct format, but
:) named differently
:)
:) save: this is the really big problem. It won't save AT ALL unless
:) the file blah.xs3 is already in existence (say created via
:) emacs). If the file doesn't exist, it says it does (??) and
:) asks persmission to overwrite it, if the permission is
:) granted it just fails. If the file does already exist, it
:) overwrites it and all is well.
:)
:) What should have happened:
:)
:) I don't know, it's the first time I used this program.
:) Normally, though, it should just accept the filename, and save.
:)
:) Please describe any relevant documentation references:
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