Re: convert-ly

[Knute Snortum]

On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 6:59 AM <tim@risingdove.com> wrote:
>
> On 30 May 2021 at 17:50, JxStarks wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi Ralph,
> >
> > I read that documentation and tried it. I'm running Windows 10 Pro, 
> > 10.0.19041 and I still get the
> > same response: " 'convert-ly is not recognized...". Am I missing something 
> > obvious?
>
> I think so. The name of the file is convert-ly.py, so (to me anyway) it's 
> perfectly reasonable
> that the OS can't find the file without the extension.
>
> When you type a command, the OS will look for a file of that name with any of 
> several
> extensions that it knows about: *.exe, *.bat, *.cmd,*.lnk that sort of thing. 
> It doesn't know
> about the *.py extension, so you have to type it in as part of the command.

I was called "convert-ly.py" until 2.22; now it's just called
"convert.ly". Was this on purpose?

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Knute Snortum