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[ic] Pee-Poor Documentation Rant
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 cfm@maine.com wrote:
>>I'll also bet, **without looking**, that one could grep examples of
>>[file name=] or [include] tags in the standard demos.
You are exactly right. That's how I finally resolved the problem - not from
the docs.
>>Inluding a random qotd is different. Do you want it autogenerated
>>with each page view, or really is it daily, meaning you also need
>>to understand outside processes and permissions? The docs will
>>not cover how to run your system, either. Nor should they.
That was the easy part. I simply set a cron event to run 'fortune' and to
pipe the output into a file (qotd) in this case. It runs at midnight. IC
picks up the content of QOTD and displays it.
The only help I was looking for when I RTFM was how to get the contents of
the file into the web page. Grep got that answer for me, not the docs.
-= Jim =-
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