Background
This directory, known as the "webtech" directory, is one that contains
original NPAC course materials. It is one of those that can be
periodically written to a CDROM. The other directories are those
containing talk slides, in the "users/gcf" directories, and some
few examples that reside directly in the "reference" directories
on carver.
In order to write a cross-platform CDROM, certain format rules must
be followed for the directories to be written. An explanation of the
CDROM formats and rules is found in
Tips for creating CDROM's by David Bernholdt.
At NPAC, the process of writing the CDROM takes
place in two steps. Given a set of directories that contains the
desired contents of the CDROM, a mapping script, developed by Deepak
Ramanathan, is run on the directories, producing a directory of
CDROM content in the required format, mapping the link tags to their
new location, and marking links that go "outside" of the CDROM material
itself. Then this directory is the
one actually "burned" onto the CDROM.
Therefore, in the original directories, not all of the rules are
required as the mapping script will fix those problems. For example, it is
o.k. to have HTML files in upper or mixed case, and the mapping
script will change them to all lower case, and also change any links going
to those files.
On the other hand, it is not possible for the mapping script to fix
file names that do not occur in link tags. So, for example, file names
that appear in applet tags, such as .class files or .jar files,
must be in all lower case.
So in the following, we present the rules that must be followed in
this directory to enable the mapping script to produce CDROM-writable
directories. If you find any problems or unclear situations, please
tell Nancy McCracken.