I would like to be informed, too.
My solution to the problem (globally viewable annotations for a reference
document repository) (which is wedged in my neurons at the moment rather
than on-disk) is to access the annotations through a CGI script. For
example, if we have the hypothetical URL:
http://www.indy.tce.com/ctm/mlf1/netbios.txt
for a document, the annotations would be accessed via:
http://www.indy.tce.com/cgi-bin/ctm_anno/mlf1/netbios.txt
where "/mlf1/netbios.txt" is the PATH_EXTRA for the CGI script. (The TCE
Corporate Technical Memory is the name for our internal repository.) It
would on-the-fly gather all the annotation files (formatted in text/plain
and text/html), producing output with each annotation preceded by the author
and date of the annotation like so:
Mike Gideon, Thu Apr 14 02:04:09 EST 1994
This is great! It helped me get CAPS running as well as Lotus Notes!
Elaine Cordwainer, Tue Jul 5 06:45:33 EST 1994
Since we are switching to WfWG 3.11, isn't a document on how to
increase the # of real-mode NetBIOS sessions obsolete?
The annotations would be submitted via FTP or NFS to a spool directory on
the Web server (in a form like that of the old UNIX v7 lpr daemon) where
from the daemon moves them to their proper place. Annotations would be
found directly in:
http://www.indy.tce.com/ctm/mlf1/netbios.txt.anno
with URLs like:
http://www.indy.tce.com/ctm/mlf1/netbios.txt.anno/mg4.940414020409
(for the first annotation above). This spooling method is the same as what
we use for document submissions now.
I hope this helps.
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Mark Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
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"Just as you should not underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon
traveling 65 mph filled with 8mm tapes, you should not overestimate
the bandwidth of FTP by mail."