Re: Recent setup.ini corruption

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Weirdness.  The setup.ini currently on mirrors.rcn.net doesn't have 
extraneous " marks.  However, when I run setup.exe, it crashes.

But, it DOES save an uncorrupted copy of the brand new setup.ini to my 
local disk.  So, I ran setup.exe and selected "install from local 
directory" -- and it was able to parse the setup.ini FINE.  No crash.

Huh?

This is repeatable.  What does the lex parser have to do with the 
net-io/localdisk-io code?

--Chuck


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:00:45PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>The recent reports of setup.ini corruption were due, I believe, to the
>>>use of embedded "'s in some recent ldesc additions.
>>>
>>This was my fault.  <hangs head in shame> Sorry....
>>
> 
> Hey, I didn't say nothin.  I wasn't blamin no one.
> 
> 
>>I've also sent Corinna an updated set of setup.hints that use
>>texinfo-proper `foo' internal quotation marks, instead of "foo".
>>
> 
> I was thinking about modifying upset to use the `' style quoting, but
> I figured it wouldn't actually get used all that often, so it wasn't
> worth my effort.
> 
> 
>>>I've modified upset to convert these types of quotes to apostrophes and
>>>this seems to have fixed the problem.
>>>
>>Thanks.  I'm sure this type of screwup will happen again (maybe someone
>>OTHER than me, next time) so it's good if upset can handle this
>>gracefully.
>>
> 
> Yes.  I guess we really need an upset -c or an upset-lint, or something.
> 
> cgf
>