Re: Upgrade to 4.0
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Thanks for the response John...I was out sick, hence the delay in reading this email...Anup Setty----- Original Message -----From: John Peacock
To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 10:51 AMSubject: Re: Upgrade to 4.0> Anup Setty wrote:> >> > Quick question,> > where do I look for the Archives, never been there, I'll probably> > be able to get answers there.> >> > 1) What should I anticipate in shifting from 3.04 to 4.0 version> > on a Windows NT platform? Any help will be greatly appreciated.>> Unless you redefine formvariables from within a page, there is nothing> that should prevent you from using your templates completely unchanged.> When I converted, I changed nothing. However, going back is no longer> possible for me, since I have been extensively using the newer 4.x> features.>> You are planning on doing an install of 4.x on a different server and> testing before updating your production system, aren't you? Since> SMSI has been nice enough to provide a free developers license, there> is no reason not to have a second server for testing.>> >> > 2) How does it affect my existing webcat program if I've to switch> > to a Linux platform from Windows NT?>> If you were not careful about capitalization for file names, you will> be very sorry when you move to a case-sensitive system like Linux.> All of your links and filenames must agree on case, or you will have> lots of broken links. NT is case-preserving but not case-sensitive.>> Also, WebCat on NT will take both backslashes \ as well as forward> slashes / in pathnames. IIS is also similarly blinded, so you may> need to do a global search/replace to fix this. HTML standards> require the use of forward slash only. Of course, some of what WebCat> does can be considered a server side include, so absolute paths are> legal but questionable in practice.>> HTH>> John>> --> John Peacock> Director of Information Research and Technology> Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group> 4720 Boston Way> Lanham, MD 20706> 301-459-3366 x.5010> fax 301-429-5747>> -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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Thanks for the response John...I was out sick, hence the delay in reading this email...Anup Setty----- Original Message -----From: John Peacock To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 10:51 AMSubject: Re: Upgrade to 4.0> Anup Setty wrote:> >> > Quick question,> > where do I look for the Archives, never been there, I'll probably> > be able to get answers there.> >> > 1) What should I anticipate in shifting from 3.04 to 4.0 version> > on a Windows NT platform? Any help will be greatly appreciated.>> Unless you redefine formvariables from within a page, there is nothing> that should prevent you from using your templates completely unchanged.> When I converted, I changed nothing. However, going back is no longer> possible for me, since I have been extensively using the newer 4.x> features.>> You are planning on doing an install of 4.x on a different server and> testing before updating your production system, aren't you? Since> SMSI has been nice enough to provide a free developers license, there> is no reason not to have a second server for testing.>> >> > 2) How does it affect my existing webcat program if I've to switch> > to a Linux platform from Windows NT?>> If you were not careful about capitalization for file names, you will> be very sorry when you move to a case-sensitive system like Linux.> All of your links and filenames must agree on case, or you will have> lots of broken links. NT is case-preserving but not case-sensitive.>> Also, WebCat on NT will take both backslashes \ as well as forward> slashes / in pathnames. IIS is also similarly blinded, so you may> need to do a global search/replace to fix this. HTML standards> require the use of forward slash only. Of course, some of what WebCat> does can be considered a server side include, so absolute paths are> legal but questionable in practice.>> HTH>> John>> --> John Peacock> Director of Information Research and Technology> Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group> 4720 Boston Way> Lanham, MD 20706> 301-459-3366 x.5010> fax 301-429-5747>> -------------------------------------------------------------> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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