Re: Upgrade to 4.0

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 38877
interpreted = N
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 AM Subject: 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/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Upgrade to 4.0 (Anup Setty 2001)
  2. Re: Upgrade to 4.0 (John Peacock 2001)
  3. Re: Upgrade to 4.0 (Donovan Brooke 2001)
  4. Re: Upgrade to 4.0 (Donovan Brooke 2001)
  5. Re: Upgrade to 4.0 (Anup Setty 2001)
  6. Upgrade to 4.0 (Anup Setty 2001)
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 AM Subject: 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/ Anup Setty

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