CON.json invalid file handle about mtgjson3 HOT 13 CLOSED

I see this too, but only when using Chrome and viewing the file directly on Github (https://github.com/Sembiance/mtgjson/blob/master/json/CON.json).

When using Firefox, or cloing the repo and viewing the file on disk, or viewing the file on mtgjson.com in all those cases the file appears just fine.

\You mentioned you got an invalid file handle? Where did you get this? How are you accessing the CON.json file?

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It happens after downloading the zip and simply trying to copy the json from one folder to another.

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I just tried it and it works fine?

wget "http://mtgjson.com/json/CON.zip"
unzip CON.zip
cp CON.json /tmp/

Also looked at the extracted CON.json file and it looks just fine. Could you elaborate a bit with maybe some steps that I can use to reproduce the issue you are seeing?

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I grabbed the zip from github - viewed it's contents and copied the entire contents of the json folder to another folder.

This is all on windows 8.1 although I doubt it is an OS encoding issue.

@edit: for clarity, that is the message in the windows copy file dialog. "Invalid file handle."

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Hrm, it works ok for me on Linux, I'll check Windows soon.

wget "https://github.com/Sembiance/mtgjson/archive/master.zip"
unzip master.zip
cd mtgjson-master
cp -rv json /tmp

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By the way, I just added zip files to MTGJSON.com that contain all the individual .json files and the -x.json files. That way you won't need to download from GitHub anymore.

The JSON files you were using from GitHub include the extras, so this is the zip you want from MTGJSON: http://mtgjson.com/json/AllSetFiles-x.zip

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Ahhh, figured it out! It's a Windows problem. They don't allow any files with the name CON.

http://superuser.com/questions/86999/unable-to-rename-a-folder-or-a-file-as-con

I suppose I could create some zip files specifically for those folks using windows... hrm....

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For real?

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Yup, for real.

CON is a reserved name in Windows. So are PRN, AUX, NUL, LPT1 and others.

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Maybe prefix the files with an underscore? That's what I did @ my end.

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Yah, I can certainly add an underscore prefix or suffix, but I'd only really want to do that for Windows users as I don't want to inconvenience Linux and MacOS X users.

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mws / magiccards has it as CFX: http://magiccards.info/cfx/en.html

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According to Gatherer, the official code is CON. I'll be creating some Windows specific links shorty.

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