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From: singhals <>
Subject: Re: Changed files
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 10:02:16 -0400 (EDT)


At 06:11 PM 10/2/97 -0700, you wrote:
>singhals wrote:
>>
>> I went to the page later, and found the NEW e-mail address (Should; I've
>> checked three times already, using find/replace). Couldn't have been
>> reading either my HD or my disc cache, because I clear my cache at the
>> beginning of each session, and the file isn't _on_ this HD, but I clicked
>> RELOAD anyway. Something is fishy in Samoa. (Start at:
>> http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/index.htm and look around and see if you see
>
>Cheryl,
>How many old email addresses do you have Cheryl? :)

Funny you should ask! <G> Actually, I had @cpafug.blkcat.com on all the
pages, then blkcat.com decided to change jobs and move 'cross country. He
turned over
the system to his buddy at pcbuddy.com; I went in and changed _all_ the
addresses. THEN, pcbuddy started having problems upstream and all Internet
traffic died. Sooo, I went and changed a few key addresses to @erols.com.
On my HD where I keep the masters, those are the two addresses -- pcbuddy
and erols. However, after I got the complaints, I went back to rootsweb and
looked again -- sure'nuff the blkcat.com addresses were there. I reloaded
the now-current versions with both pbbuddy and erols, and am now waiting to
see how long they take to revert.

>I checked about half a dozen pages off of the main, index page and on
>the email link on the page "Documentation" and "Explanation of style", I
>did find an address other than the erols.com that you used on the
>remainder of the pages and on your email to the list. That address is
>. I did NOT check all the pages.

Yeah, I prefer to keep erols for lists and other stuff I just read. The
computer it's on is rather inconvenient for anything more complex. :(

>If you still have contact with the person who originally tried to email
>to you and found the incorrect link, ask them if they had ever visited
>your page before. If they have, ask when that might have been and also
>ask if they saw any indication that their own browser might have used an
>older cache version from their own drive.

Apparently, it was someone who only learned of the pages recently.

>
>> Then, I needed to get to another place whose URL I didn't remember, but knew
>> it was on another of my pages; I went there and found the link, but when I
>> clicked I got a NOT ON THIS SERVER. I checked the html, and the <a
>> href></a> had www.rootsweb.com/www.realaddress.net. MY copy of this file is
>> correct. Something is VERY fishy in Samoa.
>> <http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/libr.htm>;
>Ok. The source code is showing the correct address for the library but
>the link is wrong on the page.
>Are you by any chance using Netscape as your editor? If so, if you

Yes...sort of. I usually write the page otherwhere and test it in Netscape
w/notepad.

>changed the source code itself in Notepad (the program that it calls to
>write code) and saved it, the changes may not be "connected" to the
>actual page unless you do a "save" of the entire page when it is open in
>the editor. It seems to be an ideocrancy of Netscape. :)

Yeah, I found that out the hard way early on.

>Just open the page in the editor, open the code, save it, load the
>changes if it asks you do so, and then save the entire. Now upload it a
>second time. It should work.
>I think...maybe it might. :)

Usually. <G> Unless of course I commit one of the dumb errors, like
forgetting to close a > or a " or / I ended up with the whole blasted page
underlined one time because I had missed a / in the third line. :((

>Second method is while the page is open in the editor, pull down the
>menu for properties and retype the correct link in the box, and hit "OK"
>but not apply. Now save the entire page and upload.

Hmmm? how would that affect what's in the code?

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