Re: Digest Number 11

Gary Morrison wrote:
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> If we want a way for everyone to
> share non-ASCII resources, I think that hosting a web page (or even just an
> FTP site) for sounds, diagrams, etc, is the way to go. For one thing, the
> material is then automatically archived for future reference.

That's a good point.

How would you recommend such a thing be managed? That in the sense of how
a lot of people can add pages to a single site that (as far as I know)
inherently only one person can store files to.
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I know nothing, really, about the practicalities of managing a Web page,
but HTML is a simple scripting, or formatting, language run atop Internet
protocols, so read/write permissions are an OS (probably Unix) matter.
Probably someone would need to write an HTML front page, and get permission
from the host to set r/w access for the users.

> How would you recommend such a thing be managed?

> I know nothing, really, about the practicalities of managing a Web page,
> but HTML is a simple scripting, or formatting, language run atop Internet
> protocols, so read/write permissions are an OS (probably Unix) matter.

A formatting language would seem the best description of the two. In a
sense, the scripting equivalent is those Perl scripts ... oh heck I can't
remember what they're called ... it's yet another TLA (Three-Letter Acronym),
something like GED although that's obviously not it. Anyway, I have a blurb on
how to write them from the Perl class I took a while back.

I don't know if TexasNet, my ISP, would allow them, but I could ask. If so,
then I suspect that such a thing could automatically field web pages people
send, and post them on the site.

I use Netscape Navigator 4.5 as a browser and newsgroup reader, the
telnet program included in Win95 as a terminal emulator and pine as an
email reader.

Also, y'all (been in Atlanta all week) maht wan' look't oddmusic@onelist.com
(see onelist.com to sign up or preview). Good discussion group.
John Starrett
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret

< Oooo cool! Where can I find them those players (URL)? Everytime I've
<attempted to download a Real Audio player, the first question they asked was
<"what's your credit card number?".

player
http://www.real.com/products/player/
downloadrealplayer.html?wp=dl1198&src=hp_butn,chwopop1&lang=en

encoder
http://proforma.real.com/mario/tools/producer.html?wp=798tools

John Starrett
http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jstarret