Re: slightly ot

Shelby:

You are correct. prn is a protected word and cannot be used--at least on
Windows machines. Maybe the device was set up with one of those "other"
operating systems that doesn't know better. [Big Grin]

Shooting the poor guy sounds a little drastic--but I would take his Mac away
from him. (Assuming that's what he used.)

Do you have to send this to anyone?? What I mean is, if you get the
information, can you change it to something else for your own use. Maybe
even a Copy and Paste.

In "playing" with the problem, it appears that prn is just fine to work with
as long as you do not try to SAVE it to your hard drive. There has just got
to be a way around this but of course--none of us are aware of your work
structure.

My advise--ask some ten year old kid that is a local computer whiz. They
always seem to come up with simple solutions we complicated adults would
never think of ???

Best wishes
Ted Temer
Temercraft Designs Redding, CA
temer(at)c-zone.net
www.temercraft.com/novels/
www.newsredding.com/
www.ramac-rc.org/


> Hi All,
> I seem to have run into a quandry with creating a racetrack webpage.  Our
> site runs off codes assigned by someone who obviously has no concern for
> computers.  Our newest track is assigned the code "prn" and it does not
seem
> to want to save as an html document name (prn.html) or as a gif name
> (prn.gif).  I've even tried saving it under a different name and then
tried
> to rename it with no success.
> Unfortunately, I can't fudge this as it runs off templates so it must run
> off its assigned code.  I assume that the prn is not usable because it is
a
> reserved word or something.   Is there any way around this short of having
> everyone change this code in the database (and shooting the person who
> assigned this code)?
>
> TIA,
> Shelby Cook
>

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