RE: Using GIFT

"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:03:02 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.gift.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oh, sorry for that. I see that I am plain wrong, the private part of the exchange stayed private. Everything you did was fine, Majid.

Best,
Wolfgang


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Date:  Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:48:12 +0200

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>Dear Majid,
>
>I answered a message sent only to me privately only to you. Publicizing this on the list was not intended. It is not considered netiquette to publish private exchanges without asking.
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>Did my answer to one of the previous three copies of this message you sent to me reach its you?
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>Best,
>Wolfgang
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>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: Majid NAJJAR <[email protected]>
>Date:  Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:05:54 +0200
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>>
>>The error is: Unrecognized character \xBF in column 29 at ./gift-add-collection.pl line 385.
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>>$lName=~m�\.([^\.]*)$�;
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>>That's the line 385 and the last character is (;) at column 28  so what does an error at column 29 mean?!
>>
>>The following line is:
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>>my $lExtension=$1;
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>>I've never written any perl  code and surely never debugged any. Which is why i'm asking for assistance.
>>Thanks,
>>
>>
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>>> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:47:50 +0200
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
>>> Subject: RE: [help-GIFT] Using GIFT
>>> 
>>> Find the line
>>> 
>>>     if ($lExtension && $lExtension=~m/^((tif)|(tiff)|(ppm)|(gif)|(jpg)|(jpeg)|(eps)|(png)|(ras))$ /xi)
>>> 
>>> in the installation point of gift-add-collection.pl
>>> 
>>> and add somewhere before ")$" the string (not including the quotation marks) 
>>> 
>>> "|(bmp)"
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This should solve your problem. Ah, and before I forget: This line occurs twice, you have to add the both times.
>>> 
>>> If you have the source package and you are compiling and installing from source you have to perform the corresponding changes in the file 
>>> 
>>> gift-add-collection.pre-pl
>>> 
>>> instead (and then do again make install).
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Wolfgang
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>>> From: Majid NAJJAR 
>>> Date:  Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:15:55 +0200
>>> 
>>>>HI,
>>>>Well i didn't quite understand what to do. I'm sure about the path, and the extension is bmp.
>>>>And unfortunately i can not work on this issue before Monday, i'll be abroad for 3 days.
>>>>I hope that my issue will be resolved by Monday.
>>>>Again sorry for bothering you
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:57:29 +0200
>>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>>> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
>>>>> CC: [email protected]; [email protected]
>>>>> Subject: Re: [help-GIFT] Using GIFT
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Henning,
>>>>> 
>>>>>>it looks like your collections is empty, so not a single image was 
>>>>>>indexed. Have you given the correct path for gift-add-collection?
>>>>>>What file extensions do your images have? They need to have extensions 
>>>>>>recognized by GIFT in the gift-add-collection script.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for pointing this out more clearly. Majid: The above text explains the questions I ask in the mails I wrote some minutes before I received Henning's post.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Wolfgang
>>>>>    
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>  
>>>>>                    
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