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About and how to get this book
This section describes this book in general.
Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks is an instruction manual describing how to create and manage Macintosh-based World Wide Web servers.
After providing a bit of background about the World Wide Web, this book describes how to:
- Effectively use and enhance your World Wide Web browsers
- Install and maintain MacHTTP
- Write hypertext markup language documents
- Enhance your server with imagemaps and common gateway scripts
- Organize and provide searching services for your server
This book is intended for the person who wants to disseminate information on the Internet including persons in government, education, and industry.
Distribution
This book is intended to be distributed as freely as possible and in as many formats as possible. To that end, you can download and/or access this book in any one or more of the following ways:
- Live version (currently at version 1.0)
- This is the full, online, hypertext version. At sometime in the future this may be mirrored somewhere at Apple Computer as well as <URL:http://tricks.lib.ncsu.edu/>, but for right now, it can be found only at <URL:http://152.1.24.177/teaching/manuscript/>
- Text-only (currently at version 1.0; 468K)
- This format is a simple ASCII representation of the text at <URL:http://152.1.24.177/teaching/archives/tricks-text-only.txt>
- MacWrite Pro (currently at version 1.0; 655K)
- This is a MacWrite Pro version of the text at <URL:http://152.1.24.177/teaching/archives/tricks-macwrite.hqx>
- HTML (currently at version 1.0; 1.6MB)
- This is the set of HTML documents, graphics, and scripts making up the book. Using this archive you could set up a mirror of this book. Try: <URL:http://152.1.24.177/teaching/archives/tricks-html.hqx>
- PDF for printing (currently at version 1.0; 3.3MB)
- This PDF (portable document format) version is intended for printing. <URL:http://152.1.24.177/teaching/archives/tricks-pdf-print.pdf>.
- PDF for viewing (currently at version 1.0; 3.9MB)
- This PDF version is intended to be read on our computer screen. <URL:http://152.1.24.177/teaching/archives/tricks-pdf-screen.pdf>
Hardware and software used to create this book
Normally there is no reason to tell people what computer platform a server is running on, but since this book is about the technology, it may be a good idea here.
Much of the development of this book was done on a PowerBook 540c with 12 MB of RAM and 500 MB of hard disk space. Its configuration also included RAM Doubler. The computer actually hosting this book (http://152.1.24.177/) is a Quadra 610 with 8 MB of RAM and a 200 MB hard disk. It too uses RAM Doubler.
The software used to create this book is not too extensive. It included:
- Simple HTML Editor (SHE) as well as BBEdit 3.5 with the BBEdit HTML Tools extensions to write the text
- Clip2gif to convert any PICT files into GIF images
- HTML Grinder to sequentially link each of the HTML files together as well as create the table of contents
- WebMap to create the imagemap configuration files
- software database, see also database, and simple Internet database (SID) are three locally developed HyperCard stacks used to create and maintain the software reviews, write lists of suggested readings, and create lists of Internet resources, respectively
The software used to serve the book includes:
- WebSTAR to act as the server
- AppleSearch and TR-WWW to provide searching services
- MapServe to serve the imagemap
- Error.acgi as a replacement for the default error.html file
- toc.cgi, a locally developed AppleScript, to use as a pop-up menu table of contents
- email.cgi, a locally developed AppleScript, to provide a feedback mechanism
Lastly, while the creation of this book as been an exhausting process, the process has been quite enjoyable and thought provoking. If you have any suggestions or complaints about this book, then please don't hesitate to drop me a line. I love to get email.
Eric Lease Morgan
eric_morgan@ncsu.edu
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