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- Welcome
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- This is the read me file for the HTML version of Teaching a New
- Dog Old Tricks.
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- Welcome, and I hope you enjoy Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks !
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- This is the read me file for the HTML version of this book. It describes how
- you can get it up and running on your computer.
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- Shareware
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- Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks is intended to be distributed as freely as
- possible. At the same time, in order to demonstrate the use of this
- technology, this distribution contains a few pieces of shareware. If you use
- this software for your own use, then you are expected to pay the shareware
- fees. The instructions concerning these fees is described in their
- individual online documentation.
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- Requirements
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- To read this book, all you really need is an HTML browser. If you are in a
- hurry, then, assuming you haven't moved any files around inside the
- distribution, you can begin reading right away. The file you want to
- initially open with your browser is named 0030-toc.html and it resides in
- the manuscript folder of the teaching folder.
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- If you want to read the book and use the scripts it includes, then you need
- to have AppleScript installed, an HTTP server running that handles CGI
- scripts, and finally install a few more files from the distribution.
- Installation instructions follow.
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- Contents
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- The distribution consists of the following files and folders:
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- * Tricks Folder
- 1. Teaching folder - contains the manuscript, appendicies, lists of
- Internet resources, graphics, and scripts used to make most of the
- book happen
- 2. OSAX Folder - items to be installed in the Scripting Additions
- Folder of your Extensions Folder of your system folder
- 3. robust-search.cgi - a TR-WWW search engine
- 4. robust-search.config - a TR-WWW configuration file
- 5. simple-search.cgi - a TR-WWW search engine
- 6. simple-search.config - a TR-WWW configuration file
- 7. readme.html - this file
- 8. readme.txt - an plain text version of this file
- 9. Table of contents - an alias to the table of contents page
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- Installation instructions
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- In order to demonstrate this book's full potencial and use the scripts it
- contains (including the pop-up menu in the table of contents), then you need
- to have an HTTP server (like MacHTTP or WebSTAR) installed and running on
- your computer. Otherwise there is no need to read this section as the
- present time. If this is you, then read the text, get a server, and come
- back to these instructions later.
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- If you have gotten this far, then it is assumed you have an HTTP server on
- your computer. Here is what you have to do to get this book up and running:
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- 1. Copy all the files and folders from the Tricks Folder into the root
- folder of your HTTP server. In other words, but all items from this
- distribution into the same folder as MacHTTP (or WebSTAR). If the
- folder named "teaching" is not in the same folder as your server
- application, then you may get unpredictable results.
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- 2. Run your server application. If you are not connected to the Internet
- and/or any other network, then read Appendix B: Running servers without
- the Internet.
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- 3. Install the OSAX. Put all the files in the OSAX Folder into the
- Scripting Additions Folder of your Extensions Folder of your system
- folder. Those files (Parse CGI and TCP Scripting addition) allow you to
- run the pop up menu from the book's table of contents as well use the
- comment form at the bottom of every page.
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- 4. Configure the pop up menu. The script at the other end of the pop up
- menu has to know where to redirect its output. This is done by editing
- the FORM in the file named 0030-toc.html. More specifically, you must
- change the VALUE of the ipaddress variable. If your server is on the
- Internet, then change the VALUE to "0". Otherwise, change the VALUE to
- the IP address you assigned yourself in the MacTCP control panel
- document. By default, the distribution comes configured as if you are
- not on the Internet and your IP address is 192.0.1.2.
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- 5. Use AppleSearch to index the folder named manuscript inside the
- teaching folder. I know, I know. You probably don't own AppleSearch
- because it costs too much money. Even if you did, then you are probably
- serving other files with AppleSearch. Unfortunately, the "Search this
- book" feature is configured in such a way that only one index can be
- served from the AppleSearch server. In short, even if you wanted to,
- you most likely can not use the "Search this book" feature. "Bummer,
- there goes 'searchability.'"
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- Now that you have installed and configured the distribution, then you too
- can begin reading Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks.
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- Feel free to mirror this distibution, support the shareware, and don't
- hesitate to tell me what you think.
-
- Eric Lease Morgan
- eric_morgan@ncsu.edu
- http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/
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- Eric last edited this page on September 29, 1995. Please feel free to send
- comments.
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