In article <39B50D77.A3BBD8DA@my-dejanews.com>, 
gre### [at] my-dejanewscom wrote:

> I saw (was it on p.b.t?) a link to a 9MB tutorial in Word format.  I
> wouldn't reject its "deserving to be"  9MB out of hand. But I'm also
> loathe to d/l it as a run of the mill pov user.

I wonder how big it would be if it was converted to HTML...
OK, how about this: Set a "maximum size" *guideline*. If you start to 
run out of space, tutorials above this size will be first candidates for 
removal.


> The tutorial collection is actually the one I'm least confident in, in
> that my intrusion into this area may be the least value-add to the pov
> community.  In other words, the tut collection is the prong of the 10 best
> CD project which I'd consider dropping with the least 'hurt feelings' on
> my part. 

If it is any encouragement, I think a tutorial collection on the CD is a 
great idea, and potentially quite valuable.


> I think it would be of greatest value to the customer to  have 
> unzipped, html, web-ring-like pages for browsing.  A subdirectory of 
> "here's 200 zipped files in 37 different formats; browse at your own 
> risk" is of such little value that I think it would be a waste to put 
> on a CD. .

I didn't say the tutorials should be zipped on the CD, or in different 
formats. I was talking about the uncompressed size of complete HTML 
tutorials, including images, other binaries, and text files.
Having all the HTML tutorials be linked together could is a very nice 
idea, but they should probably be independantly useable as well, so you 
don't have to have the CD inserted, but could put the ones you want on 
your HD.

-- 
Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
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