Scripting task to improve reading of documentation on VMS

Ashot Bord abord at chek.com
Wed Sep 15 07:41:11 GMT 2004


>The HTML documentation as provided by SAMBA can not be read on VAX or 
>ALPHA with current browsers, as VAX does not support multiple dots in a 
>filename, and Mozilla does not either, even on ODS-5.

the 2.2.8 last build apparently handles the "dotted" names internally in SWAT module. 
At least the SWAT help docs (links on welcome.html page), are often refernce unix-style dotted-names 
(man-references .1.html etc), and SWAT manages to map them properly onto respective .1_html etc. 
Still in this case it may be hazardous to the FTP of such weird files, as one needs to remember 
that they're ascii.

the previous version had the mentioned probelms with accesssing the dotted names, 
even more, the supplied docs somehow were corrupted internally (possibly due to ascii/binary probelms). with the recent version it seems 
to be fine (on VAX at least).

AB





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