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I look after the website for Dovestone Sailing Club. When I receive the results from the race officer the race is empty. How can I sort out this problem. The race officer assures me that the results look OK on his laptop.

2

Hi,

The reason is someone or something has processed the sailwave (blw) file and removed all the LF characters from the end of the lines

I have added them back and attached the amended file

Jon

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Jon Eskdale
Sailwave

03333 443377

07976 709777

On 16 September 2013 14:24, N niklever@btinternet.com wrote:

I look after the website for Dovestone Sailing Club. When I receive the results from the race officer the race is empty. How can I sort out this problem. The race officer assures me that the results look OK on his laptop.

3

Nik,

Although Jon has diagnosed the problem and provided a fix this time,

it would be very helpful to understand the environment in which this
problem occurred.

So a description of the race officer PC in terms of operating system

and Sailwave version together with how the file was transferred from
him to you, please.

Also a description of your computer in terms of its operating system

and Sailwave version and how you received the file plus what you did
once it arrived with by the transfer mechanism.

Thanks in anticipation of more information.
Kind regards,
Huw
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On 16/09/2013 14:35, Jon Eskdale wrote:

Hi,

            The reason is someone or something has processed the

sailwave (blw) file and removed all the LF characters
from the end of the lines

I have added them back and attached the amended file

Jon

Jon Eskdale
Sailwave

03333 443377

07976 709777

On 16 September 2013 14:24, N niklever@btinternet.com
wrote:

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I look after the website for Dovestone
Sailing Club. When I receive the results
from the race officer the race is empty. How
can I sort out this problem. The race
officer assures me that the results look OK
on his laptop.

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Yes Sailwave handles CRLF and LF line endings but CR alone is new to me…

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Cheers,

Colin J

http://sailwave.com

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Huw Pearce huw.pearce@bcs.org.uk wrote:

Nik,

Although Jon has diagnosed the problem and provided a fix this time,

it would be very helpful to understand the environment in which this
problem occurred.

So a description of the race officer PC in terms of operating system

and Sailwave version together with how the file was transferred from
him to you, please.

Also a description of your computer in terms of its operating system

and Sailwave version and how you received the file plus what you did
once it arrived with by the transfer mechanism.

Thanks in anticipation of more information.
Kind regards,
Huw

On 16/09/2013 14:35, Jon Eskdale wrote:

Hi,

            The reason is someone or something has processed the

sailwave (blw) file and removed all the LF characters
from the end of the lines

I have added them back and attached the amended file

Jon

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Jon Eskdale
Sailwave

03333 443377

07976 709777

On 16 September 2013 14:24, N niklever@btinternet.com
wrote:

                        I look after the website for Dovestone

Sailing Club. When I receive the results
from the race officer the race is empty. How
can I sort out this problem. The race
officer assures me that the results look OK
on his laptop.

5

Macintosh used to use CR alone. Someone once justified it because the carriage return lever on a typewriter usually has an auto line feed gizmo, so typists know that a carriage return is enough to start a new line therefore CR is more intuitive than LF. Now Mac uses LF. Clearly the justification didn’t hold water.

Ian.

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On 17 September 2013 12:43, Colin Jenkins colin@sailwave.com wrote:

Yes Sailwave handles CRLF and LF line endings but CR alone is new to me…

Cheers,

Colin J

http://sailwave.com

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Huw Pearce huw.pearce@bcs.org.uk wrote:

Nik,

Although Jon has diagnosed the problem and provided a fix this time,

it would be very helpful to understand the environment in which this
problem occurred.

So a description of the race officer PC in terms of operating system

and Sailwave version together with how the file was transferred from
him to you, please.

Also a description of your computer in terms of its operating system

and Sailwave version and how you received the file plus what you did
once it arrived with by the transfer mechanism.

Thanks in anticipation of more information.
Kind regards,
Huw

On 16/09/2013 14:35, Jon Eskdale wrote:

Hi,

            The reason is someone or something has processed the

sailwave (blw) file and removed all the LF characters
from the end of the lines

I have added them back and attached the amended file

Jon

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Sailwave

03333 443377

07976 709777

On 16 September 2013 14:24, N niklever@btinternet.com
wrote:

                        I look after the website for Dovestone

Sailing Club. When I receive the results
from the race officer the race is empty. How
can I sort out this problem. The race
officer assures me that the results look OK
on his laptop.

6

Hi Jon

Race officer (Mick) is not at all computer literate! I believe he used Outlook, the attachment was received on my iMac. So I suspected the Mac of stripping the LF. But I did exactly the same thing with the file you supplied as that from Mick and the one you sent worked and Mick’s didn’t so I think the stripping had happened before I saved it to our local network. I used a text editor to add CRLF to all the files that Mick had sent and it fixed them all. But I have also suggest to Mick that he zips them up before attaching them to an email. I’ll let you know if I discover anything more concrete to get to the root of the problem.

Nicholas Lever

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On 16/09/2013 14:35, Jon Eskdale wrote:

Hi,

            The reason is someone or something has processed the

sailwave (blw) file and removed all the LF characters
from the end of the lines

I have added them back and attached the amended file

Jon

Jon Eskdale
Sailwave

03333 443377

07976 709777

On 16 September 2013 14:24, N niklever@btinternet.com
wrote:

                        I look after the website for Dovestone

Sailing Club. When I receive the results
from the race officer the race is empty. How
can I sort out this problem. The race
officer assures me that the results look OK
on his laptop.

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