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Greg M. Johnson wrote in message <3A1### [at] my-dejanews com>...
> Let's back up one question.
>
> I'd like the collection to look something much more like the povray
webring
> than say povray.binaries.tutorials. I'd like it to be linked HTML
pages
> rather than a collection of ZIP files.
> Q1: Is the opposition to this proposal based on an assumption of a
pile of
> ZIP's? IMO, if we go with a pile of ZIP's (even in own
subdirectories),
> let's just stick with p.b.t., as the CD will offer no value-add to
anyone.
>
> I'm just thinking suppose we end up with 100 separate tuts. It is
going to
> be difficult for the person who wants to "get at" the information by a
means
> other than the official HTML paths, regardless of 100 subdirectories
or
> 100*(2 to 10) files in one big directory. I'm thinking that it will
be a
> much bigger pain to write the CD if there are 100 subdirectories, with
> little value add to the user.
remember that userinterface which you write in html is not only way to
access to cd-rom - user without internet browser want access cdrom from
any platform - if you deliver 1000 files in one directory how he
recognize subject of html file ? recently I bought some old macs. I plan
to use them to trace, I plan to NOT install internet browser becouse of
space but I plan read html files by pov from cd and copy some stuf from
tutorials to my scenes - what you can advice me to recognize which html
file support my problem ?
if you plan about 100 tutorials how many will be with the same zip name
? 5 ? you can't rename them by hand ? you can't write simple batch to
search all zips in directory and create subdirectories with the same
names and unzip to it ? the same batch can make list of unzipped files
as htm file !!!
> Q2: Isn't this similar to the IRTC rewriting your carefully chosen
file
> names to suit its purposes, as it dumps everything into one folder,
no?
I think it isn't
as I see from your letters you do all by hand but I think IRTC has
automats
and they allow the same names for files - look at
http://www.irtc.org/stills/rules.html point 4.h
ABX
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