Re: 971119: inconsistency in netCDF-3.3.1

> 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

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu

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