[Cin] A potential HTML manual problem under NTFS/FAT filesystems

Georgy Salnikov sge at nmr.nioch.nsc.ru
Sun Apr 14 09:08:16 CEST 2024


I accidentally found, that in the huge list of files produced by latex2html
from the CGG manual there are HTML pages, whose filenames differ from each
others in the letter case only. This is no problem under Linux. But if
somebody copies all the files to a Windows computer (with an NTFS-like
filesystem), or to a memory stick formatted as FAT32, or to some network
(Windows or Samba) disk where differences between upper/lower case in
filenames are ignored by the operating system, then some HTML pages will be
overwritten by others and disappear. I have found 4 such potentially
conflicting pairs of page names:

Compositor_Window.html - describes the whole Compositor GUI (Chapter 2)
Compositor_window.html - describes the Compositor shortcuts (Chapter 15)

Viewer_Window.html - describes the whole Viewer GUI (Chapter 2)
Viewer_window.html - describes the Viewer shortcuts (Chapter 15)

Final_note.html - about copy/paste text highlighting in Chapter 17 (How some
stuff works)
Final_Note.html - a link to wiki.archlinux.org on hardware video
acceleration from Chapter 19 (Performance and other tips)

Index.html - the Index at the very end of the manual
index.html - the default start page, automatically created by latex2html as
the exact copy of (hard link to) CinelerraGG_Manual.html

The automatic creation of index.html can be suppressed by the latex2html
option -noauto_link, and this file is not used by CGG Context Help (while
Index.html is used). If renaming other sections (for example "Compositor
window" to "Compositor window shortcuts" or "Final Note" to "Further topics
on hardware acceleration", or something like this) is desirable, to me is
open question.

Georgy
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Georgy Salnikov
NMR Group
Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry
Lavrentjeva, 9, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
Phone   +7-383-3307864
Email   sge at nmr.nioch.nsc.ru
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