discuss: Thread: Some questions

Hello all,
whilst checking the mirrors I have come across a couple of things that people 
might be able to help me with.
1.  I notice that in the HowTo list there are a number of documents that 
are "under review".  For example the C++ Programming HowTo removed for review 
in November 2002.  This seems like a long time for a review?
2. There does seem to be some problem displaying this page
~/LDP/manpages/man.php 
Some sites do display it fine, others display it as plaintext, and some not at 
all.  Is this something to with the man.php file itself?
3.On all the sites I looked at (including the mainsite, tldp.org) this page 
was blank;
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/faqs/ 
The link to it is on the 
http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq 
page, the 'other' link.
4.  The Author database link on the main page ( http://tldp.org/ )which links 
to
http://avalonix.co.uk/tldp/
asks for a login.  Is this correct behaviour?

Thanks for your help
Allister

Mail Lists a écrit :
> Hello all,
> whilst checking the mirrors I have come across a couple of things that people 
> might be able to help me with.
> 1.  I notice that in the HowTo list there are a number of documents that 
> are "under review".  For example the C++ Programming HowTo removed for review 
> in November 2002.  This seems like a long time for a review?

this classification is obsolete, for lack of reviewer. In fact we have
to put these document in the page (Page_Status) and copy them to the
wiki if the author/licence allows

This is a hudge task. I think it's not really proritary, in the
"draft" document, I planned to use the hole 2009 year to this task
(it's of little interest to put a HOWTO online without some work on it)

I'm working with Greg on the export wiki->docbook->static Web site and
it sems to be fairly simple - more soon. after that we be able to work
on the wiki and export to static, we don't have to do so very often.

> 2. There does seem to be some problem displaying this page
> ~/LDP/manpages/man.php 
> Some sites do display it fine, others display it as plaintext, and some not at 
> all.  Is this something to with the man.php file itself?

I simply don't understand why this file have a "php" extension, it's
plain html!

If nobody complain right now, I will change it to man.html (but will
need to verufy all the links are updated, should not be difficult)

> 3.On all the sites I looked at (including the mainsite, tldp.org) this page 
> was blank;
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/faqs/ 

in fact, http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/ seems to be an old LDP
home site - some files are as old as 1993!! probably good only as history?

anyway I keep a copy (wget)

may be we should ask ibiblio to remove them?

> 4.  The Author database link on the main page ( http://tldp.org/ )which links 
> to
> http://avalonix.co.uk/tldp/
> asks for a login.  Is this correct behaviour?

yes and no. Yes it's intended, but I think some week ago this site was
to be openned??

thanks helping
jdd


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jdd for the Linux Documentation Project
http://wiki.tldp.org
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jdd for http://tldp.org writes:

> 
>> 2. There does seem to be some problem displaying this page
>> ~/LDP/manpages/man.php 
>> Some sites do display it fine, others display it as plaintext, and some not at 
>> all.  Is this something to with the man.php file itself?
> 
> I simply don't understand why this file have a "php" extension, it's
> plain html!

No it's not.

Your browser may very well receive plain HTML from the web server. That does 
not mean that the web page is not a PHP page.

> If nobody complain right now, I will change it to man.html (but will
> need to verufy all the links are updated, should not be difficult)

… and you will break that page.