RE: Asdk the Wizard ?
From: Tom Linden (tom_at_kednos.com)
Date: 04/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:34:57 -0700
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From: Hoff Hoffman [mailto:hoff@hp.nospam]
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 2:59 PM
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Subject: Re: Asdk the Wizard ?
In article <NDEMLKKEBOIFBMJLCECIGEIADCAA.tom@kednos.com>, "Tom
Linden" <tom@kednos.com> writes:
:When a FAQ says to read discussions referenced by numbers,
:how do you access those? Certainly would nice if they were
:links.
Yes, it certainly would be nice.
Some folks still don't have operating systems with mouse-based
cut-and-paste support, after all. :-)
BTW, as for the FAQ, are you volunteering? :-)
I wonder if you could make tool to parse the text and make URL
substitutions.
For example, from 8876:
Please also consider reading through at least some of the following
existing discussions:
(546), (2312), (2407), (2631), (2696), (3202), (3280), (5173),
(6447), (7504), likely others.
upon encountering the comma delimited list of parentheses encapsulated
number,
extract the number and build the string
"http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wiz_546.html"
number make the substitution (after validating that the number is a valid
reference)
(546) for
<A HREF="http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wiz_546.html"> (546)</A>
in the text. Of course, this assumes that all the pages behave the same and
that one can recognize the references. How many pages are there? Are there
any such entries longer than 32K characters each (so I could put an entire
page into a PL/I string)?
Pending implementation of ultra-mega-hyperlink web technology or my next
delivery of copious spare time, I'm simply not planning to add a large
volume of (new) URLs into the FAQ. If I can manage to add hyperlink
hrefs into the SDML without greatly increasing the maintenance effort
and particularly without increasing the risk of output-specific errors,
I'll certainly add that -- but I do not seek to maintain parallel sets
of output-specific URLs within the FAQ SDML source files in the process.
If y'all really want to sign up to maintain the FAQ, well, we can quite
certainly discuss that off-line. A phrase I recall from my childhood
comes to mind in this context, too:
"The first complainer is the next meal's cook." :-)
As for the Ask The Wizard (ATW) area (www.hp.com/go/openvms/wizard) and
as for finding entry numbers, there was some effort to try to make this
somewhat easier, within existing URL static-vs-volatile URL reference
constraints and within available time. In particular, you will find
the following text -- well, there is a correction for a spelling error
shown here, with the correction itself in progress at the site -- at
the ATW web page, and the subsequent section of text shown below was
extracted from the FAQ. Do these help?
Suggestions and corrections are welcome, as always.
-- ATW --
Goto Specific OpenVMS Ask The Wizard Entry Number
Enter specific Ask the Wizard entry number: [box]
Topic citations here refer to the unique and parenthesized number
assigned each
question, and specific topic citations can be found using the parethesized
value in the topic listings, using the [wizard zip archive ~6MB],
by using the
search engines, or by using the citation number embedded in each topic's
specific URL.
Commonly-referenced topics include:
* (1020) general IP printing, and HP printer blank pages
* (1661) memory management, application synchronization, and
common coding errors
* (6776) resolving the access violation (ACCVIO) error
* (7552) general application debugging
-- FAQ --
3.9 What is this Ask The Wizard website I've heard about?
The HP OpenVMS Ask The Wizard (ATW) website is an
informal area containing questions and answers on a
wide variety of topics.
o http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/wizard/
For additional information on the OpenVMS Ask The
Wizard (ATW) area and for a pointer to the available
ATW Wizard.zip archive, please see Section 3.9.
To access a cited topic directly, use the URL filename
WIZ_topic-number.HTML. For example, topic (1020) can be
accessed directly using the URL filename wiz_1020.html
at the following URL:
o http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/wizard/
A zip archive (named wizard.zip) containing all of the
available topics and questions can be downloaded from
the above URL. The wizard.zip zip archive is completely
regenerated when new batches of topics are posted out
to the ATW website.
Before posting a question to the Ask The Wizard
area, please read and please heed the posting rules-
and please remember to search this document, the
OpenVMS FAQ. And if you have a question that requires
an answer, or if your question has time-critical
constraints or business constraints, please contact
the HP customer support center directly.
---------------------------- #include <rtfaq.h>
-----------------------------
For additional, please see the OpenVMS FAQ --
www.hp.com/go/openvms/faq
--------------------------- pure personal
opinion ---------------------------
Hoff (Stephen) Hoffman OpenVMS Engineering hoff[at]hp.com
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