Sunday, May 30, 1999 11:37 AM

I have been given the task of rewriting a bit of the honors handbook. Specifically my task is: 
will, your task, dread though it may seem (i'm really into using parenthetical
expressions today, sorry....), is to familiarize people with the vax.  pretty
much the same things as from last year- with a strong emphasis on logical order
and making sure that they learn what they need to know before they move on to
the next task in that part of the chapter.
The chapter as it exists now is this. In looking at it and following its basic structure it does not seem like there is all that much in it other than the VAX stuff. Here's a brief run down of the chapter as it stands. I think that this onlline version is actually the chapter from two years ago. The mail program that we are backing has now been switched over to pine and that is not in here so there may be other changes. A brief run down of the chapter at this point is:
Monday, May 31, 1999 8:30 AM

I went off yesterday to fall creek falls and had a picnic rather than finishing this work so I've got a bit to do. I did however get a copy of the latest revisions to the chapter and read them and laid out the basics of how I plan to do this chapter.

I plan to: I think that the outline for the chapter ought to go something like this:
Just out of curiosity, can I use links to images to acess them. Like I am going to put the tag <img src="./above_and_beyond_picture" alt="Something extra"> here and then in the directory this page is in I'm going to do ln images/little_chilli_pepper.gif above_and_beyond_picture -s. There is no actual image above_and_beyond.gif, only a soft link to chilli_pepper.gif. Lets see if it works.

Something extra

Neato, it do. That means that I could have a bunch of images and switch which one was being used just by changing the destination of the link. Right now changing that is essentially as copying and deleting files to change the picture, but this could also let me have a tag like <img src="ab&b_pic"> and link it to some communal pictures directory for the entire webpage. Its kinda mute right now since the webpage is on a VMS server which doesn't (to the best of my knowledge) support symbolic links anyhow. It is neat though.
Monday, May 31, 1999 4:51 PM

Ok, I now have a virtual copy of the text for this chapter along with a commandment to make it less than 20 pages all told. It is doable I think. It was initially 16 pages and I am cutting 3 pages of BBS info which is being replaced with the much simpler webboard information.

Wish me luck, I am off to work on draft one.
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