i)p ? now working...!

Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 22:54:11 -0400 (AST)
From: "David L. Potter" <potter@chebucto.ns.ca>
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Hi John... everybody...

The ip stuff really needs a good review... long time followers of CSuite 
will probably realize that although CSuite 1.0 is based on the software 
we were running here at CCN, we never actually ran CSuite on a 
production sytem until just a couple of months ago... this brought it's own 
series of challenges... superimposing CSuite on top of data structures that 
were conceived before CSuite was conceived.... 
 
While user account creation, and office administration functions are used 
almost every day, the creation of IP's is less frequent and as a result 
we are just coming to temrs with it.

Here at CCN for some reason (probably to get a new version of spam 
resistamt zmailer running) ...we abandoned the majordomo aliasing system 
that we had been using all along, and that is included in CSuite 1.0

That means that once again we're a little out of step with the rest of 
the world... the likelyhood is that these new changes will find their way 
into the next version of CSuite (don't get excited just yet... ;-)

The problem with the 'i?' is that the header was not getting installed at 
the top of the info/ips.html file. The rest of the links work but... 
without the header... 

At CCN the script that was re-building ips.html was leaving the header off 
and cat-ing the rebuilt file to the end of the previous file... as a 
result ips.html was growing to significant size and for the most part 
broken... 

I must confess I discovered this on a day when I had a lot going on and I 
simply hacked it together to get it working... there's a sed call in 
CS_LIB/mk-ipjumpfile that seemed to be the problem...

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I'm going to send a brief tutorial on debuging CSuite as a separate 
posting...

david potter


On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, John Nemeth wrote:

> On Nov 25,  1:14pm, "David L. Potter" wrote:
> } Subject: i)p ? now working...!
> } 
> } I figured out the problem... the script (in the CSuite 1.0 
> } distribution) that builds the ip jumps page was broken... possibly in a 
> } couple of places...
> } 
> } 'i?' in lynx should retrieve a list of Information Providers.
> } 
> } Any other sites that are having trouble with this let me know...
> 
>      I had problems for a while on a system running b2.0-corrected.
> For some mysterious reason, 'i?' stopped working.  I installed a new
> ips.html and verified the ownership and permissions.  I made sure it
> looked exactly the same as on another system that was still working.
> But, no go.  Eventually, it started working again on its own for some
> mysterious reason.  I was never able to figure out why it stopped
> working or why it started working again.  During the time 'i?' didn't
> work, 'i<some shortcut>' did continue working.
> 
> }-- End of excerpt from "David L. Potter"
> 

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