Re: [beginner] can't save books

morphic morphic at ziplip.com
Tue Dec 4 05:17:27 UTC 2001


yes, Gary's solution covers me--thank you. I did get the "send pages to server" idea from p.224 of Guzdial's book. i'd rather not have to give up on it as broken, so if anyone gets it to work, please tell me.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hinsley [mailto:jhinsley at telinco.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001, 8:47 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [beginner] can't save books
> 
> morphic wrote:
> > 
> > I've tried from 98, XP, MacOS X, but I can't figure out how to save a book
> for zipping and for (others) reading in later. I understand that the "send all
> pages to server" menu item on a BookMorph should create .bo and .spn files,
> but I always get an "Error: Server name not found." I've tried many things,
> including examining the ServerDirectory class, but the answer eludes my
> newbieness. I was hoping that the squeak directory on my local disk would be
> the default location, but apparently it doesn't work that way. Can someone
> give me a recipe to make this thing go?
> > 
> > e
> 
> The way Garry describes works. (3.2, Linux) But the way you're trying --
> which is the way documented in Mark Guzdial's book -- looks to be
> broken: Send all pages to server, choose Use page numbers, and it's as
> though (guessing here!) a dialogue in which you select the Url is
> supposed to come up. It doesn't, just the debugger window.
> 
> It looks like a bug!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> John
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