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> To: address@hidden > Subject: Re: 971119: inconsistency in netCDF-3.3.1 > Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 08:38:21 -0700 > From: Joseph VanAndel <address@hidden> Joe, > One minor glitch: Your page's > (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/mfs/04/contrib.html) > > last lines are: > > ------------- > Russ Rew <address@hidden> > This page was updated on . > ------------ > (The modified date is misssing.) The web page you are looking at is derived from: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/contrib.html which does not have the glitch. You must have used a URL constructed on-the-fly by a cgi-bin script from our glimpse search page, and clicked on one of the line references rather than the document title in the choices presented to you by the glimpse search engine. In this case, in order to take you right to the line you clicked on, the associated cgi-bin script has to generate a new HTML document on-the-fly that now has an anchor at the line you want to see, so that it can construct a URL that will go right to the place in the document where that line appears. In the process of deriving this new HTML from the original, which contained a server-side-include of the following form to get the date last modified: This page was updated on <EM><!--#config timefmt="%b %d, %Y" --><!--#flastmod file="contrib.html" --></EM>. the server-side-include doesn't get run. Our web server guy, Robb Kambic, tells me making this work would be impractical for the minor benefit of seeing the right modification date, and that if you want to see that, you can just click on the document title instead of a specific line in the generated search results page. So, thanks for pointing out the problem, but we've decided not to fix it at this time. But I learned a lot from the problem diagnosis :-) ... - --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu ------- End of Forwarded Message