[geeks] Bad XPMs

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Mon Sep 30 15:02:35 CDT 2002


On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> I wish I had handy the information of the software that made the XPM
> files I'm looking at.  Because they were made buy what is apparently a
> windows program, and it goofed them.  Check out these first few lines
> and tell me if you see the problem:
> /* XPM */
> static char * D:\Documents and Settings\jp\Desktop\numsym_xpm[] = {

Well, now -that- is depressing.  You'd think that The GIMP would know
better than that.  I wonder if the same bug exists in the Unix versions
if you pass a full path in the "Save As" dialog, instead of just
navigating to the directory and giving it a filename.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
 "you know, there are people who like having potatoes and jellyjars shoved up
  their asses.  there are also people who like coding in c.  at any rate, why
  not pay somebody to hack your c instead of taking the jellyjar in your ass?"
                                                             --alex j avriette



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