~cfadm@www.spring.com
Sat, Jun 15, 1996 (01:36)
seed
Testing email gateway.
~terry@www.spring.com
Sat, Jun 15, 1996 (02:06)
#1
testing email gateway 2
~terry@www.spring.com
Sun, Jun 16, 1996 (12:38)
#2
OK, I created a conference called software and I can't create topics in it now. You're saying it's becvause I set it up with mailing list enabling. Now, how do I fix software so I can go in and create new items?
~terry@www.spring.com
Sun, Jun 16, 1996 (12:39)
#3
How can we get fre fre grex or a better text editor on here.
Alsok the back sapce key doesn't work. Nor does control-h.
~thalerd@eecs.umich.edu
Sun, Jun 16, 1996 (17:52)
#4
Paul Terry Walhus writes:
>
> How can we get grex or a better text editor on here.
> Alsok the back sapce key doesn't work. Nor does control-h.
I've installed gate on
www.spring.com as the default Yapp editor, and
it does line wrap.
Your erase key is probably set to the Delete key. This is orthogonal
to Yapp and whatever editor is in use. You can set it to backspace
if it isn't already by "stty erase "
in Unix, or prefix it with a ! from inside Yapp.
You can see your current terminal settings with "stty all" or "stty -a"
depending on what flavor of Unix you're using.
(I presume you know most if not all of this, Paul, others reading this
may not.)
~terry@www.spring.com
Sun, Jun 23, 1996 (08:20)
#5
Can we have our headers to each response look like this?
Topic 1176 [media]: '60 Minutes' Recruits Ivins, O'Rourke
#101 of 101: plain brown rapper (jonl) Fri Jun 21 '96 (11:04) 2 lines
.
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Sun, Jun 23, 1996 (10:53)
#6
Yes, you can define "rsep" to look like anything you want. Do
"help itemsep" for some of the codes. "help miscsep" and "help variables"
are also relevant.
You probably want something like:
def rsep "\nTopic %i: '%h'\n#%r of %n: %a (%l) %d %s lines"
~terry@www.spring.com
Wed, Jul 3, 1996 (05:36)
#7
The biggest single impediment to gettingthis thing built right now is
the editor in yapp. I need to be able to type :e to bring up the pico
editor in order to get much done. AS it stands, the conference build
is going extremely slow.
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Wed, Jul 3, 1996 (09:09)
#8
You can tell Yapp to always bring up pico immediately by putting:
def editor pico
set edalways
in your .cfonce file.
~terry@www.spring.com
Fri, Jul 5, 1996 (16:44)
#9
OK that worked. I didn't have a .cfonce file so I created one? Should
we set this up so this is creaed automatially when a new user signs up?
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Fri, Jul 5, 1996 (16:46)
#10
If you want to have everyone use pico, sure. This can be part of the
Unix newuser process.
~terry@www.spring.com
Fri, Jul 5, 1996 (16:49)
#11
Let's do that then. Wow, you got back to me in about a minute. You must
be online somwhere. How do you invoke the pico editor from the default
editor? That might be a better thing to set up, just to make it easy for
folks to get to pico from the default editor by typing :e
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Fri, Jul 5, 1996 (16:57)
#12
Paul Terry Walhus writes:
> Let's do that then. Wow, you got back to me in about a minute. YOu must
> be online somwhere. HOw do you invoke the pico editor from the default
> editor? That might be a better thing to set up, just to make it easy for
> folks to get to pico from the default editor by typing :e
I'm not sure I understand the question. You invoke the visual editor
from the default editor by doing :e. If the question is, how do you
tell Yapp that pico is the default visual editor for everyone, then
the answer is to put:
define editor pico
in the /usr/bbs/rc file.
~terry@www.spring.com
Tue, Jul 9, 1996 (12:24)
#13
The server on the web won't come up right now. There seems to be a
general failure. Can't reach you at your home or office by phone. Hope
this gets to you soon.
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Tue, Jul 9, 1996 (20:03)
#14
It seems to be working fine at the moment. Is there any URL in particular
that doesn't seem to work for you now?
The httpd error_log over the last couple days reports a number of
"user ... not found" errors on yapp URLs, but no other errors. The
user names not found are indeed not listed in /usr/bbs/etc/.htpasswd,
so there's nothing suspicious there.
Yapp's errorlog (/usr/bbs/errorlog) has a number of recent entries
reporting files not found starting at about 6pm monday, all from
your account trying to access items in the software conference.
Since the software conference log (/usr/bbs/confs/software/log)
reports that you killed all the items, this isn't surprising. I
am curious to know if this was intentional, however.
So, to sum up, I can't find anything wrong at the moment.
~terry@www.spring.com
Tue, Jul 9, 1996 (23:17)
#15
Killed all the items? I hope not, it was a lot of work creating them.
~terry@www.spring.com
Tue, Jul 9, 1996 (23:21)
#16
I was shocked to see the whole software conference wiped out. What
happened? It was working fine last time I looked. Is there any way to
recover this?
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Tue, Jul 9, 1996 (23:37)
#17
Only if you backed up the filesystem since then. The conference log
says that you were freezing, retiring, and killing items in the
conference. (Did you know you were doing any of this?) Look at
the /usr/bbs/confs/software/log file...
It's hard to delete items unless you really mean to.
~terry@www.spring.com
Wed, Jul 10, 1996 (14:14)
#18
I never deleted a single item. There's some kind of glitch here. All I
did was go through a read items. We haven't done a backup. Looks like
back to the drawing board. I would like to understand what happened
though so it won't happen again. I had other plans for this weekend like
sailing, oh well.
~thalerd@eecs.umich.edu
Wed, Jul 10, 1996 (14:21)
#19
So I guess one question is: were you really online from
austin.spring.com
all the time from 10:50pm Monday until 10:50am Tuesday? If yes, then the
question becomes, how could you have frozen, forgotten, retired, and killed
every item over a 12 hour period without noticing. If no, then maybe
something intentionally malicious happened at
austin.spring.com. The URL
access times are regular enough that it could have been the result of a
script.
~terry@www.spring.com
Wed, Jul 10, 1996 (23:21)
#20
Austin.spring.com is a Windows 95 machine so no one can log in to it
remotely. All I did wzs set up 162 items and then go through and read them
over a short period of time. I didn't freeze, retire, kill or do anything
except add to every item. The Virtual Places was topic was developing
really well with over 20 responses. Some of them very eloquent and
considered. I gave out the url's to Forrest Stroud and to Julie and
told them to incorporate them in their websites. Now, it's back to the
drawing board with a new conference called 'apps' and I plan to delete the
software conference when I figure out how. I don't want to start a
conference with item 163. Something happened, I hope it doesn't happen
again. I can't get you by phone anymore. Maybe you're out of town
or on vacation.
I wonder if it's something to do with the telnet/web link?
Is this possible. What could have caused this?
~terry@www.spring.com
Thu, Jul 11, 1996 (06:59)
#21
The only thing I did with the topics in this conference was to
read through via a telnet session using the same commands I use to
navigate on the WELL. I hit r to read a topic and n to go to the
next topic. I don't use any other commands than these. Could it be
that hitting 'r' or 'n' in a telnet session is causing topics to be deleted?
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Thu, Jul 11, 1996 (08:09)
#22
Yes, I was out of town from Monday afternoon until late Tuesday afternoon.
Thursday's I am at another of my offices at Merit Network (an ISP), so
the best way to reach me is by email to
thalerd@eecs.umich.edu.
You delete a conference either with the "cfdelete" command inside Yapp,
or else via the web from the "List all conferences" page.
No, it isn't possible that you could have deleted anything from a telnet
session, since the logs clearly show that it was done by accessing the
URLs for forgetting, freezing, retiring and killing, from the web
from
austin.spring.com over a 12-hour period. (See the email I sent you.)
~terry@www.spring.com
Thu, Jul 11, 1996 (14:02)
#23
There's got to be some kind of glitch, because I'm the only one that uses
this machine.
austin.spring.com is a Windows 95 machine. It's just as
well, because I can build a better version of the conference. I'm just
curious as to why this happened and I can't buy a hacker theory. I just
doesn't seem likely.
~thalerd@eecs.umich.edu
Thu, Jul 11, 1996 (14:04)
#24
Well I can't understand how it could have anything to do with Yapp itself,
since Yapp doesn't make you access URLs. I'm curious as well what could
have made your browser request URLs without you knowing about it.
~thalerd@eecs.umich.edu
Thu, Jul 11, 1996 (18:04)
#25
After glancing at the httpd access_log some more, it looks like the
URLs were accessed very methodically and in the same order the links
appear on the pages, and every link was followed. Every item was
frozen, forgotten, retired, and killed in order, and the buttons
for these occur immediately after each other in that order. Also,
every response was censored and then scribbled.
This basically means that your browser was somehow walking all the
links itself. What browser were you using? Does it have some sort
of feature that allows it to go exploring by itself? This looks like
what was happening, and is a very bad thing for a browser to do
when in Yapp...
-Dave
~kkreps@bga.com
Sat, Jul 13, 1996 (15:53)
#26
Please add line feeds to this message box. I go off the page, and I go
off line real fast!
Also, why do I have a 30-minute limit to post a reply? Why can't I take my
time and reply the next day, or whenever?
~terry@www.spring.com
Sat, Jul 13, 1996 (20:16)
#27
I agree, we need to fix these text entry boxes to the text wraps. There
shouldn't be a need for a message above the box that says:
You have up to half an hour to submit a response from: Sat Jul 13 20:15:02 1996
Don't forget to hit ENTER (or RETURN) at the end of each line.
On the WELL, the text wraps.
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Sat, Jul 13, 1996 (22:03)
#28
You don't have to respond within half an hour. The message is obsolete.
~terry@www.spring.com
Sun, Jul 14, 1996 (07:18)
#29
How do we implement line wrap?
~terry@www.spring.com
Tue, Jul 16, 1996 (13:00)
#30
Item 12 in apps has no title because I didn't fill that in on the web page
Is there a way to go back and add a title?
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Tue, Jul 16, 1996 (23:08)
#31
Paul Terry Walhus writes:
> How do we implement line wrap?
You just need to remove the 2 tags from the item header format,
and add
to the end of each of the first three response header format
lines if you want the Response/Date/From lines to stay on separate lines.
You can make these changes from the sysconfig page (log in as sysop,
and go to the "Configure system" page).
~cfadm@www.spring.com
Thu, Jul 18, 1996 (23:25)
#32
As you can see, we're beginning to change the response headers. Is there a
guide to 'yapp variables' anywhere. For example, we need to know the variable
for athe topic name and we need to list responses as: '3 of 29' etc. so what
is the variable for the total number of responses in a given item?
Here's what we have now:
1:] Response 31:
Tue, Jul 16, 1996 (23:08) | Dave Thaler (
thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us)
And we'd like to acheive something more like this:
Topic 11 [fitness]: Workouts! How'd it go today?
#914 of 917: Dave Thaler (thaler) Tue 16 Jul '96 (10:23)
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Fri, Jul 19, 1996 (08:51)
#33
Yes, "help variables" will show you the variables which you can
use in the form %{variable}. Not everything you need is a "variable"
though. On the other hand, everything you need is available as a
"separator" which you use in the form %X ("help sep", "help itemsep",
"help miscsep", and perhaps "help itemcond" and "help misccond" are
relevant). For example, a "%h" gives you the topic name, and "%n"
gives you the total # of responses. Some variables synonymous with
some separators. I'd start by looking at "help itemsep" first, and
then look at the other help screens mentioned for anything you
can't find there.
~terry@www.spring.com
Sat, Jul 20, 1996 (06:57)
#34
What would be the code to make our response headers in the telnet side
look like this:
Item 740 of 841 [sports]: 1996: Centennial Olympic Games - Atlanta
Resp 142 of 143: Never State Expire (josh) * Fri 7/19/96 (23:13) * 4 lines
~terry@www.spring.com
Sat, Jul 20, 1996 (07:00)
#35
Or better yet:
Top 740 of 841 [sports]: 1996: Centennial Olympic Games - Atlanta
Res 142 of 143: Never State Expire (josh) * Fri 7/19/96 (23:13) * 4 lines
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Sat, Jul 20, 1996 (11:56)
#36
Try:
Item %i of %{lastitem} [%{confname}]: %h
Resp %r of %n: %a (%l) * %d * %s lines
With HTML tags, it should be something like:
Item %i of %{lastitem} [%{confname}]: %h
Resp %r of %n: %a (
%l) * %d * %s lines
~terry@www.spring.com
Sat, Jul 20, 1996 (14:19)
#37
Tried that and it looks a little wierd, it has some extra brackets and
break tags that I'm not sure why they show up. Take a look at one of our
topics and you'll see what I mean.
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Sat, Jul 20, 1996 (22:30)
#38
Instead of the (ampersand)lt; you need to put in a real less than sign.
Same for greater than. In the text of my response, I used those escapes
so you could see the HTML tags from the web instead of actually doing them.
~terry@www.spring.com
Tue, Jul 23, 1996 (12:31)
#39
On the web, we seem to have lost all our paragraph breaks. What setting
controls this in the configuration page on the web?
~cfadm@www.spring.com
Tue, Jul 23, 1996 (17:43)
#40
Dave, Kym here. I am trying to add a background to all of the pages. I added
a jpg file to the gifs directory and I also put it in the www directory just
in case. I am wondering how to reference that, how it must be written out. I
have put it in the body tag though it doesn't seem to want to come up. I am
wondering if there is a special way to reference gif or graphic files. My email
is
kym@spring.com
~cfadm@www.spring.com
Tue, Jul 23, 1996 (17:43)
#41
Dave, Kym here. I am trying to add a background to all of the pages. I added
a jpg file to the gifs directory and I also put it in the www directory just
in case. I am wondering how to reference that, how it must be written out. I
have put it in the body tag though it doesn't seem to want to come up. I am
wondering if there is a special way to reference gif or graphic files. My email
is
kym@spring.com
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Wed, Jul 24, 1996 (09:37)
#42
When I look at the source of pages from my browser, I see *2* BODY tags
currently:
BODY background="halk.jpg"
body background="chalk.jpg"
I'm not sure which one a browser will use when there's two, but one
should be removed. The problem is though, that it can't find the jpg
file either way. You need to give it the full pathname to look in,
since the yapp gifs directory isn't the default place httpd looks.
Since %{gifs} is a macro which expands to the full pathname of the
gifs directory, you should change it to:
BODY background="%{gifs}chalk.jpg"
~terry@www.spring.com
Thu, Jul 25, 1996 (09:37)
#43
In the Apps conference, we want to got back and add icons to the titles
in the different topics. Where are these titles stored? Also, along the
same lines, one of the titles didn't get entered so we need to go back
and add it in later. We'll be needing to modify the introductory text as
we go along.
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Thu, Jul 25, 1996 (11:36)
#44
Paul Terry Walhus writes:
> In the Apps conference, we want to got back and add icons to the titles
> in the different topics. Where are these titles stored? Also, along the
> same lines, one of the titles didn't get entered so we need to go back
> and add it in later. We'll be needing to modify the introductory text as
> we go along.
They're stored in the second line of the file containing the item text
("help file item") in the conference's directory. If you edit this, you
should delete the "sum" file in the same directory, then go into yapp,
join that conference, and do "set sum", which will regenerate the summary
file. The sum file is just a cache of information which speeds things up
a lot.
Yapp doesn't currently allow you to edit item information from within
Yapp. When it does (as you've requested), the above procedure is exactly
what Yapp will be doing for you.
~terry@www.spring.com
Fri, Jul 26, 1996 (08:13)
#45
We're going to be sending folks directly to topics from the Stroud site and
if they'e not registered they get an error message if they don't have a login id
and a password. Is there any way we can put a 'register' button on this error
message?
Also, how do we institute word wrap in this text entry box on the web?
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Fri, Jul 26, 1996 (21:05)
#46
Paul Terry Walhus writes:
> We're going to be sending folks directly to topics from the Stroud site and
> if they're not registered they get an error message if they don't have a
> login id and a password. Is there any way we can put a 'register' button
> on this error message?
If by "an error message" you mean either the prompt for User ID and Password,
or an "Authorization Required" error message, then the answer is no,
those are browser-specific things that your site has absolutely no
control over as far as I know.
One alternative would be to make the conference a readonly conference,
which means that users can read items without being authenticated.
You could then put a register button there (by putting a link in the
public_read_header or public_read_footer templates).
> Also, how do we institute word wrap in this text entry box on the web?
Add the following line to /usr/bbs/www/rc:
define txtsep "%(L%(F%7N:%)%X%L<br<%)"
Dave
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Fri, Jul 26, 1996 (21:12)
#47
I just noticed there was a typo in the previous message. If you're
reading this from a browser, the line to add to /usr/bbs/www/rc is:
define txtsep "%(L%(F%7N:%)%X%L
%)"
(There was a less than which should have been a greater than)
Again, the br should be surrounded by less than/greater than, and not
ampersand lt; and ampersand gt;
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (10:02)
#48
Paul Terry Walhus writes:
> Also, how do we institute word wrap in this text entry box on the web?
Put WRAP=SOFT as an attribute to the TEXTAREA tag in the enter_get and
the read_footer templates.
~terry@www.spring.com
Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (05:16)
#49
Does yapp feature an onpager and offpager command. How do you set your
scroll rate and screensize?
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (08:36)
#50
Paul Terry Walhus writes:
> Does yapp feature an onpager and offpager command.
No, but that's an interesting idea. What use do you have in mind?
> How do you set your scroll rate and screensize?
Depends on the platform. In BSD Unix (like BSDI), you can do
"stty rows 24"
while in System V Unix (like Solaris), you do
"setenv LINES 24"
~terry@www.spring.com
Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (10:36)
#51
We need a way for users to set their screensize and whether paging is on
or off. On the WELL, they use the commands onpager and offpager. You
can access this command from just about anywhere, the ok prompt or the
respond/pass prompt. This is a pretty basic feature.
~thalerd@eecs.umich.edu
Tue, Jul 30, 1996 (10:42)
#52
Paul Terry Walhus writes:
> We need a way for users to set their screensize and whether paging is on
> or off. On the WELL, they use the commands onpager and offpager. You
> can access this command from just about anywhere, the ok prompt or the
> respond/pass prompt. This is a pretty basic feature.
Ok, that's different, and it's actually more general than that since
you can specify WHICH pager to turn on (more/less/anything else).
"onpager" -> "define pager more". "offpager" -> "undefine pager".
Again, for screensize use "unix 'stty rows 24'".
~cfadm@www.spring.com
Wed, Jul 31, 1996 (10:54)
#53
Well, I set up wordwrap as you suggested above and now I'm in my first test of this feature and yes! it works. So I deleted the comment above to enter a return at the end of each line and also deleted the obsolete command that says you have one hour to e
nter a response. There's no time limit on entering a response anyway. I think wordwrap should be the default that this package comes with.
There's a real need for a "fast start" system administrator's guide with yapp.
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Wed, Jul 31, 1996 (11:00)
#54
Yapp WWW Administrator writes:
> I think wordwrap should be the default that this package comes with.
It will be, starting with release 3.0.10 (which is about a week away now).
> There's a real need for a "fast start" system administrator's guide with yapp.
Ok, it's on the TODO list.
~kkreps@bga.com
Wed, Jul 31, 1996 (12:12)
#55
This is the third time I've tried to report that the word wrap problem isn't completely fixed. I loose part of words, and small words from sight under the right slider of my browser. But before I can get the message submitted, I lose the cache and my mess
age disappears. I follow instructions to hit reload, but whatever I wrote in this form box is gone. So you've got two problems: 1) word wrap is too wide and 2) cache is too short.
~cfadm@www.spring.com
Wed, Jul 31, 1996 (12:25)
#56
OK Dave, over to you on this one. What's the fix for this? I haven't been having a problem with the word wrap, though, it seems to be working fine here. I wonder what's different about Karen's setup? Or why she's having these problems?
And I'm wondering why some of the text in the apps conference introductions is double spaced.
~terry@www.spring.com
Thu, Aug 1, 1996 (22:36)
#57
Dave, here's a crucial issue to getting our Stroud site up. Forrest
doesn't want to link until we fix the error message when you try to log
in to a topic without having an account or password. We need to error
trap and have a message pop up with a url to the registration area.
That way, users can come directly from the Stroud site to a related topic
without having an account and still stay within the topic.
Perhaps the error message would say "click here to register".
~terry@www.spring.com
Sat, Aug 3, 1996 (21:37)
#58
What's the quick command in yapp to add a new conference?
~kaylene@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Sun, Aug 4, 1996 (16:15)
#59
The following is the help file from yapp.
Syntax: cfcreate
Description: This command can only be run by the conference administrator,
and is used to create a new conference. When run, Yapp will prompt
for a short conference name (used to join it), a one line description,
the conference directory, logins or UIDs of fairwitnesses,
the conference type (see 'help security'), and email address if
the conference is linked to a mailing list (see 'help maillist').
See also: list, join, cfdelete
~terry@www.spring.com
Thu, Aug 8, 1996 (08:17)
#60
I added word wrap to the web text entry boxes but it wraps too wide for
the telnet window that I use. Is there anyway to increase the margins on
the word wrap and make it match the word wrap margins that you get in a
telnet session?
I'm writing this in a telnet session. My next response will be in a web
browser text entry box. You'll see the difference.
~terry@www.spring.com
Thu, Aug 8, 1996 (08:19)
#61
OK now I'm entering text in the text entry box on the web. By the way, can folks start deleting some of the useless test items they've created in this yapp conference. That would be a good way to test the kill feature of yapp. So how am I doing
on word wrap?
~terry@www.spring.com
Thu, Aug 8, 1996 (08:21)
#62
OK. I lied. It looks already to me. But I know some other folks have
been having a problem with this.
~terry@www.spring.com
Thu, Aug 8, 1996 (08:40)
#63
On second look, the text does look too wide. Do other folks see this?
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Thu, Aug 8, 1996 (09:12)
#64
Paul Terry Walhus writes:
> By the way, can folks start deleting some of the useless test items
> they've created in this yapp conference. That would be a good way
> to test the kill feature of yapp.
That's the host's job. Once others have responded to a topic,
the author can no longer kill the topic.
~cfadm@www.spring.com
Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (07:00)
#65
What about the wrapping problem on the web. When the web-entered items appear in a telnet session, they wrap in the middle of words and they go right to the very edge of the telnet window without leaving any margins. What's the cure for this?
~terry@www.spring.com
Sun, Aug 11, 1996 (21:26)
#66
One of my users got the following error message when trying to log in to
www.spring.com and invoke the bbs command:
login username -- invoking bbs -n
Got error 13 (Permission denied) in opening /usr/bbs/license/registered
Couldn't open and lock /usr/bbs/license/registered (euid=188)
There are already 0 copies being used. Try again later.
Couldn't get license for
www.spring.com
There were no other users logged in when this user tried this.
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Mon, Aug 12, 1996 (23:38)
#67
Yapp WWW Administrator writes:
> What about the wrapping problem on the web. When the web-entered items
> appear in a telnet session, they wrap in the middle of words and they go
> right to the very edge of the telnet window without leaving any margins.
> What's the cure for this?
Add:
wrap=70
to your /usr/bbs/rc file.
~kym@spring.com
Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (09:44)
#68
Dave, Kym here. Yesterday, I was trying to center the header buttons and the
footer buttons. From the public_read_header I tried to center the buttons up
top. When I did this, the horizontal line disappeared. When I tried to center
the buttons on the public_read_footer page, it whiped out the references to
the apps conference and main menu. The same was for the read_header page and
the read_footer page. I restored everything back to the original format so
that those things that came up missing are there now. Would you know why that
would be happening?
~kym@spring.com
Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (09:45)
#69
Dave, Kym here. Yesterday, I was trying to center the header buttons and the
footer buttons. From the public_read_header I tried to center the buttons up
top. When I did this, the horizontal line disappeared. When I tried to center
the buttons on the public_read_footer page, it whiped out the references to
the apps conference and main menu. The same was for the read_header page and
the read_footer page. I restored everything back to the original format so
that those things that came up missing are there now. Would you know why that
would be happening?
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (11:01)
#70
I suspect the horizontal line problem was due to your HTML, in which case
you should just look for examples of HTML that does what you want
(in an HTML book or other pages on the web or whatever).
The references to the apps conference and main menu are generated by
the confreturn and mainreturn macros, which are inside the footer macro
(all three of which you will find on the System Customization page).
If the "footer" macro was deleted from the read footers, that would of
course cause the links to go away. Whether that was what happened is
something we can't tell without more information.
~terry@www.spring.com
Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (11:01)
#71
Kym must have double clicked. Is there a way to trop for double clicking
so it only accepts one mouse click?
~terry@www.spring.com
Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (11:10)
#72
And how do I go back and edit a previous response
The command in caucus is ch response xx
~thalerd@eecs.umich.edu
Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (13:18)
#73
Paul Terry Walhus writes:
> And how do I go back and edit a previous response
> The command in caucus is ch response xx
edit xx
~terry@www.spring.com
Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (19:29)
#74
How do we get a blank line in between the item header and the item text? I
finally got the item header like I want it except for that lack of an
extra line, example:
Topic 3 of 279: 'What are your favorite apps?'
Response 11 of 11: Marc Y. Paulin (XTreme) Wed, Aug 14, 1996 (10:13) 7 lines
Oh yes, please! Pump 'em up! :-)
I like Usenet because I just have to fire up Agent, let him
do his work and come back later to find all the latest posts
waiting for me to be read. I don't have to stay on-line.
But that's okay. I'm enjoying this place so anything will suit me. :-)
Here's the code I used, in case it gets blown away again:
def rsep"\n Topic %i of ${lastitem}: '%h'\n Response %r of %n: %a (%l) %d %s
lines"
The above is all on one line of course.
~kaylene@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Fri, Aug 23, 1996 (09:36)
#75
To enter a newline into your defined separators you would need to add a \n before the closing quotation mark. "\n" creates a newline "\t" creates a tab in the unix enviornment.
~kkreps@bga.com
Tue, Aug 27, 1996 (15:59)
#76
Dave, I'm still finding that my text goes off the page where I can't see it on the right margin. It only goes over about 3 or 4 characters. Is it possible for you to narrow the margin-width still further on the word wrap. It's very irritating, for example
, to not be able to see the word "for" in the preceding sentence.
~kkreps@bga.com
Tue, Aug 27, 1996 (16:03)
#77
I just submitted a suggestion, but I don't see it displayed. So here goes again: The wordwrap still is too wide. I can't see about 3-4 characters that go off the right margin. (For example, in the preceeding sentence, the word "the" is not visible.) Can y
ou narrow the character width of the word wrap in this entry field?
~kkreps@bga.com
Tue, Aug 27, 1996 (16:06)
#78
I just submitted a suggestion, but I don't see it displayed. So here goes again: The wordwrap still is too wide. I can't see about 3-4 characters that go off the right margin. (For example, in the preceeding sentence, the word "the" is not visible.) Can y
ou narrow the character width of the word wrap in this entry field?
~terry@www.spring.com
Tue, Aug 27, 1996 (16:34)
#79
We need double click prevention, Dave. Is this possible?
~terry@www.spring.com
Wed, Sep 11, 1996 (13:55)
#80
We're getting lots of server errors and we have a critical demo coming up
soon Dave. Please look into these.
For example:
http://www.spring.com/yapp-bin/public/read/apps/91
Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator,
webmaster@spring.com and inform
them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done
that may have caused the error.
~terry@www.spring.com
Wed, Sep 11, 1996 (14:10)
#81
Still getting those errors after rebooting the server just now.
~thaler@armidale.ann-arbor.mi.us
Wed, Sep 11, 1996 (23:38)
#82
It's working now. Somehow, the participation file for the www account
for the apps conference got corrupted, which caused Yapp to crash since
it wasn't doing enough error checking.
I've currently fixed the participation file, so things are working again,
and I will install a fixed version of Yapp so this won't happen again
probably sometime tomorrow (Thursday).
~terry@www.spring.com
Wed, Sep 18, 1996 (07:55)
#83
When you installed the new software you blew away the buttons that appeared
in the public area that said 'login' and 'signup' that we created. How
do we restore these? *urgent*
~terry@www.spring.com
Wed, Sep 18, 1996 (08:54)
#84
%{header}
%{zprev}%{znext}%{help}
~thalerd@eecs.umich.edu
Wed, Sep 18, 1996 (11:17)
#85
Paul writes:
> When you installed the new software you blew away the buttons that appeared
> in the public area that said 'login' and 'signup' that we created. How
> do we restore these? *urgent*
Um, I'm confused. When I go to (for example)
http://www.spring.com/yapp-bin/public/read/dsm/1
I do see signup and login buttons.
(And I haven't change any templates or scripts recently.)
-Dave
~terry@www.spring.com
Wed, Sep 18, 1996 (17:17)
#86
I fixed it before you posted this, thanks Dave.
~cfadm@www.spring.com
Sat, Sep 21, 1996 (15:24)
#87
Dave/ Can you fix cfcreate so that it works? I even tried makeing it executable and that didnt' work.
~cfadm@www.spring.com
Sat, Sep 21, 1996 (15:27)
#88
I was referring to using cfcreate from a shell prompt. It won't execute.
It would probably be much faster to create conferences from a unix prompt
but I have yet to create my first one.
Also, we just built a new machine called
conf.netrabbit.com and I'd like to
install NetRabbit's yapp there and keep this as the Spring's yapp license.
Can you just copy all of this code over and leave it here also? Or, with
your permission, we could copy it over.
~cfadm@www.spring.com
Sat, Sep 21, 1996 (15:29)
#89
correction: the above should read
conf.netrabbit.net. I'll ask Matt to
create a thalerd account there.
~thalerd@eecs.umich.edu
Sat, Sep 21, 1996 (15:33)
#90
Yapp WWW Administrator writes:
> Dave/ Can you fix cfcreate so that it works? I even tried makeing it executable and that didnt' work.
cfcreate should be owned by cfadm, mode 700. Also, it should only be run by
cfadm.
-Dave
~terry@www.spring.com
Sat, Sep 21, 1996 (15:56)
#91
I tried su'ing to cfadm but that didn't seem to work.
~terry@www.spring.com
Sat, Sep 21, 1996 (16:01)
#92
webuser in the /usr/bbs/bin directory where cfcreate is located works
fine logged in as root. But won't execute as cfadm. cfcreate won't work
loggend in either as root or cfadm.
~cfadm@www.spring.com
Sun, Sep 22, 1996 (06:59)
#93
When you go to create a new conference on the web there are a couple
of problems:
1. a broken gif on the link to create a conference
2. The access value box is always 0, even if you change it. I just
created a media conference and it would accept and store the number
16 even with repeated retries. Is this number supposted to be
automatically generated by the boxes you click in the various access level
choices?
~terry@www.spring.com
Tue, Sep 24, 1996 (07:53)
#94
In yesterday's email:
Subject: bug in yapp
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:04:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matthew McClure
To:
terry@well.com
Hi,
I got your mail about Wm's conference. I went there and twice had
the unpleasant experience of resizing the Netscape window I was
typing in and having all the text I'd typed disappear.
Any clues as to what he's talking about here Dave?
~terry@www.spring.com
Tue, Sep 24, 1996 (07:55)
#95
The biggest single problem with yapp 3.0 remains the way text looks
in a telnet session that was created on a web page. It's very awkward,
we tried the fixes mentioned above, but they seem to do much good.
We'd like it so that lines wrap cleanly after 70 characters or so.
Any more suggestions on this?
~thalerd@eecs.umich.edu
Tue, Sep 24, 1996 (11:40)
#96
To get lines to wrap at 70 chars in telnet mode, all you need to do
is put "wrap=70" in /usr/bbs/rc.
-Dave
~terry@www.spring.com
Tue, Sep 24, 1996 (11:55)
#97
OK I added line wrap. Let's see the results now.
~terry@www.spring.com
Tue, Sep 24, 1996 (12:18)
#98
OK, I'm entering this response on the web so this should be a good test of how the line wrap is working out now. I set wrap=69 and I may reduce it even more pending the output of this test.
Another email from a user about some problems (Jeff is with Texas Monthly):
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:59:33 -0500 (CDT)
To: terry
Hello! I've been able to log on via Telnet, but Netscape still won't let me get in. And whenever I try to read a topic, I get several screenfuls atonce, socan only read the last part of the topic. I tried going hrough the Settings menu, but in the Termina
l Type choice, there seems to be a bug--I type the number to change my terminal type, and I get the Internet Services menu.
Any clues on this?
~thalerd@eecs.umich.edu
Tue, Sep 24, 1996 (17:04)
#99
> Hello! I've been able to log on via Telnet, but Netscape still won't
> let me get in.
This sounds like a Netscape problem.
> And whenever I try to read a topic, I get several
> screenfuls atonce, socan only read the last part of the topic.
This sounds like either there is no pager defined, or the user's screen
size is set wrong. Since there is a default pager defined on the spring,
I suspect the latter.
> I tried
> going hrough the Settings menu, but in the Terminal Type choice, there
> seems to be a bug--I type the number to change my terminal type, and I
> get the Internet Services menu.
This sounds like an error in the menus.
None of the above are really problems with Yapp, so further discussion on
this should be directed to me (or someone else) personally since they're
not really relevant to others on this list.
Dave
~terry@www.spring.com
Tue, Sep 24, 1996 (17:31)
#100