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Author: Sean Crist (Swarthmore College)
Email: kurisuto at unagi dot cis dot upenn dot edu
Date: 2005-02-09 09:05:17
Subject: Re: Stopped at the divider line
> Hi Sean,
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> Ready to do my first check on bt_d0001.txt, but it gets rejected.
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> Quoth the error daemon:
> The divider line made of dashes (-------) was not found where expected.
I can see the files you uploaded for checking. I just spent a little while studying your most recent submission. The file is in a strange condition.
The first thing that's the matter is that the dashes should be on the next line from the "This is page..." line. So there's a newline missing. Also, the <HEADER> tags are no longer there around the header line (which is A 1 in this case), and that line should be separated from the dashes line by two newlines. I tried fixing those things and checking the file again, and I got a whole lot of very strange errors; there are a great many very unusual anomalies in the file.
Here's a possible guess as to what might have happened. If you're using Internet Explorer, there are two ways to download a text file: one way works, and the other way screws up the file. You can right-click on the link and choose "Save File As..." (or whatever it's called; this is the way that works). Or, you can open the .txt file in an Internet Explorer window, and then save the contents of the window. If you do it this second way, IE does a bunch of conversions such as changing á to the á char (and likewise with all the other standard entitites); it gets rid of tags marking italic, bold, and the header, and so on.
I suspect that this is what happened, because the <HEADER> tags are missing. Maybe you added all the other bold and italic tags back in, and changed most of the special characters back to entities.
I've been working on a special page about this issue, but I don't have it posted yet.
Sorry things are going rough at the start! I hope this isn't too much of a discouragement.
--Sean
| Messages in this thread | Name | College/University | Date |
| Stopped at the divider line |
Mike Troy |
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2005-02-08 15:00:39 |
| Re: Stopped at the divider line |
Sean Crist |
Swarthmore College |
2005-02-09 09:05:17 |