[Orca-users] Re: data file disposal

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Mon Sep 16 17:47:59 PDT 2002


Sean O'Neill wrote:
> 
> At 06:46 PM 9/13/2002 -0700, Blair Zajac wrote:
> >jannev66 wrote:
> > >
> > > Can data files be safely removed once the rrd and html files have
> > > been created?
> >
> >Yes, however read question 3.16 at
> >
> >http://www.orcaware.com/orca/docs/FAQ.html
> >
> >first.
> 
> Hey Blair,
> 
> There is a problem in the FAQ that Opera 6.04, Netscape 6.2, and Mozilla
> 1.1 don't like.  At least on my Win2K Pro laptop, they all stop display at
> question 3.15 right after the text:
> 
>           -    strcpy(strchr(buf, '\n'), "");
>           +    for (i=0; i
> 
> IE 6.0.2600.0000 displays the page but I think it shouldn't be.
> 
> The problem is the "<" character following the i character just above.  I
> see in the source where the questions are within a <pre></pre> block but
> there are several "<" and ">" symbols in the text that are screwing up the
> other browsers - probably because IE is more forgiving then the others.

Hi Sean,

Hmm, that's odd.  It works fine for me in IE 6.0 SP1 and Netscape 4.78.

In any case, I wrote a little shell script to process the text file and
protect the &, < and > characters.

Try loading the page now and let me know if it works.

Best,
Blair

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Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/



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