Re: Breaking glass with sound Problem with URL

["L. R. Cartwright (Larry)" <physics@SCNC.CPS.K12.MI.US>]

On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ron Ebert wrote:
> At 12:40 PM 5/26/99 -0500, Norman Lohstreter wrote:
> > Vern Lindberg wrote:
> > > I tried the URL on two successive days and Netscape says "Unable to locate
> > > server phyld.ucr.edu.  Is there a mistake somewhere?
>
> > I had the same problem.  Then I added an 'l' to the final extension.
> >
> > http://phyld.ucr.edu/Sound%20&%20Wave%20Motion%201/S-118G.html

The problem is in the way different operating systems handle file
extensions.  MSDOS and Windows 3.1 (and Mac OS's, I think) only use
3-digit extensions (i.e. the first 3 digits), so they and their
applications think that .htm and .html are the same.

On the other hand, Win95/Win98 has long file names capability that
interprets S-118G.htm and S-118G.html as two completely different files.

Best wishes,

Larry

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Larry Cartwright
Physics, Physical Science, Internet Teacher
Charlotte High School, 378 State Street, Charlotte MI 48813
<physics@scnc.cps.k12.mi.us> or <science@scnc.cps.k12.mi.us>

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