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According to the Economist Style Guide, word concatenation that results in a repeat letter merits hyphenation, for example book-keeper, but bookseller. Thus hitch-hiker would be the preferred style in this case. But, as it also points out, in all things grammatical, it's usage that counts...

It also sets a flag 0x80 at offset 0044 to display a special 'AVI failed recording' icon in the programme list if it cannot recognise the file format - even if the file is a locally produced, but still encrypted, ts-video file. Do you know of any other functions which generate nts files other...

Thanks for all the input, which has helped me narrow down the problem - for those who are interested :-)) The fact that the problem happens in exactly the same place on two different machines suggests that it is not caused by a machine fault. It also suggests that, while the problem is...

Thanks for your prompt reply. I had wondered something along these lines, but I've been using crop for years, and only experienced these problems recently. I'll try the sidecar suggestion, thanks. Your comment about timestamps helped me with a more effective forum search - leading to the...

For some time I've been experiencing strange behaviour with the pause and resume functions on playback: 1) after stopping and then resuming playback, the programme skips back to some time before the programme was stopped; 2) After pressing pause and then using trick-play - for example to skip...

I'm happy to collect from Southampton (9 miles away) and pay whatever is the going rate for a box in good condition without a hard drive.

I tried the same test with the same result: i.e. successful (but very slow) access to the Humax Portal and iPlayer user interfaces; successful initiation of playback; followed a few seconds later by a system crash. It happened several times with different programmes. I have no reason to...

As a student, I had an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and built up an extensive music collection recorded from the radio. I was infuriated in January 1965 when in the middle of a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony: "We interrupt this programme to bring you the latest bulletin on Sir...

To draw this to a close, but to record the probable cause of the underlying problems in case anyone else ever encounters them, I pass on the following comments from the developer of greenend SFTP. 1) Problems in Filezilla (and Mac Transmit) over SFTP are caused by their parsing the 'longname'...

Yes, that was my first thought. But just setting Force showing hidden files doesn't actually change anything in this case. I think the problem may actually be in the relationship between Filezilla and betaftpd. To pick one odd symptom: if I use Filezilla (with the betaftpd server) to copy a...

betaftpd doesn't seem to show hidden (.) files, whereas the built-in server does - at least that's my experience using Filezilla.

My main interest has been trying to get the SSH/SFTP mechanism working, as above. However, I did invite other suggestions, and have found them very helpful. Briefly: I certainly agree and have used 'sneakernet' for years - especially as most of my recordings are already on external USB...

I've tried the 2020.79 Beta but, as you say, that doesn't work either. Is there any way that I can get access to the source code for the CF dropbear-ssh and greenend-sftp packages to see if I can figure out where the problem lies? Thanks for your help on this.

Just to level set on the SSH/SFTP dropbear-ssh/greenend-sftp problem: perhaps prpr and XYZ321 could tell me if I'm on the right lines. My understanding is: The SFTP extension to dropbear needs to have access to the location of the private key. The problem appears to be that it currently does...

Oops! You're absolutely right, of course. Sorry about the slip - I'm still new to this game. I think that's the problem that I ran into. I think it might be expressed as: "How can the private key generated by dropbear in the client Humax be accessed so that the SFTP extension can use it in...