EmpView

Posted by: tman

EmpView - 15/05/2002 08:32

I was bored... So I wrote a small program to let you view on the empeg display the boot logos and animations from riocar.org. Saves wear and tear on your flash anyway

Is there already a program to do this? Because I couldn't find one...

- Trevor
Posted by: tfabris

Re: EmpView - 15/05/2002 09:19

Cool. Make sure to put that in the downloads section of RioCar.org.
Posted by: time

Re: EmpView - 15/05/2002 12:06

So how does it work? The attachment is a .TXT file. Sounds like an interesting tool and I'm looking forward to trying it. Thanks for contributing!
Posted by: tfabris

Re: EmpView - 15/05/2002 12:25

I think that it's not really a TXT file. I think he had to name it TXT to get the BBS to swallow it, or the BBS automatically added ".txt" to a file without an extension. It's probably a linux binary.

Many browsers will interpret a text file oddly at download time, inserting carriage returns in bad places if the file is a binary file. So I'm not sure if it'll run properly from the posted file, I haven't tried it.

Best to zip or tar any binary files before posting them on the web.
Posted by: F0X

Re: EmpView - 15/05/2002 12:28

Cant seem to access that attached file here either.
Posted by: smu

Re: EmpView - 15/05/2002 13:11

He didn't name it .txt
The BBS software (or the web server more precisely) defaults to document type text/plain for files that do not have a filenameextension. And IE thinks that a text/plain file should be named X.txt, even when the webserver says it should be named X (without .txt).
But letting the naming problem aside, there still is the problem that some browsers (IE being the most prominent one) don't save text/plain files to disc as provided by the webserver but try to change its document encoding to the local encoding. In this case, IE replaces all newline characters by CR/LF combinations.

Workaround 1: Upload them with a .bin extension
Workaround 2: Download them with netscape or wget or links or any other UNIX friendly browser/downloader or with flashget/getright or similar tools.
Fix: Let the webserver default to application/octet-stream

cu,
sven
Posted by: smu

Re: EmpView - 15/05/2002 13:13

Here is the file as a (hopefully working) attachment.

Edit: The attachment/download works, at least for me. Haven't tried wether it is executable and working yet though.
Posted by: tman

Re: EmpView - 15/05/2002 15:30

Sorry about that. Smu's link does work and the file you get is identical so download that

It's on my webpage here as well.

- Trevor