Feel like a blind man with a color tv
Everything's fine but I just can't see
(Element of Crime, "Almost dead")
This chapter provides a list of questions and answers which have come to the mind of several people. Some of them are only necessary because many users don't read this manual, some of them are not very serious,.. but anyway, here's a list of them:
Questions dealing with the archives.lha files?
.lha-archives using my WWW-Browser, but they seem to be corrupt?!
<XYZ> (the attribute ZYX), but I need this one!
Q: What about those strange .lha files?
A: LHA is the standard compression utility for AmigaOS.
A portable version of lha is available from
aminet:misc/unix/lha_1_00.tar.Z.
Q: I've downloaded the .lha-archives using my WWW-Browser, but they seem to be corrupt?!
A: Seems that your browser has no MIME-type configured for
.lha. Look up the manual of your browser how to configure
MIME-types.
Q: hsc doesn't know about the tag <XYZ> (the attribute ZYX), but I need this one!
A: Read the chapter about
Syntax definition
and how to extend it.
Q: hsc tells me loads of warnings I don't care about! Is there a way to prevent it from doing this?
A: All non-error messages can be suppressed adding a
simple IGNORE=message_id to the call used to
invoke hsc. Take a look at the chapter about
Options and switches to find out
more.
Q: Somewhere in these manual You are talking about a tool called make/weblint/... Where can I obtain it from?
A: All tools mentioned within these documents should be denoted
in the chapter about
Related stuff
(if not, let me know). Normally I only mention the
version for AmigaOS, but the archives or ReadMes
usually include some notes where to look for other systems.
Q: I have a problem with make: bla sülz fasel laber...
A: Refer to the manual of make. Make sure your make supports
implicit rules and conditionals as described within these documents. Make
sure your editor does not replace TABs by blanks (use memacs,
which came with your Workbench distribution, if you are not sure).
Q: Why is hsc that slow?
A: One reason is, that hsc handles (nearly) all resources dynamically
(Technical note: That means, it often calls malloc() and
free(), which are known to be quite slow).
Another, quite embarrassing, reason is, that most of these resources are kept in linked lists. And therefor, if hsc has to look for something, it sequentially searches these list. Shame on me, I should use some sort of balanced binary tree for such things. But the problem with balanced tree is: though there are lots of sources around, most of them are perverted ``real'' C-sources perpetrated by some brain-dead Unix-fossils, ignoring the fact that memory can run out or that there is a "-Wall" option in most compilers; some of these sources also date back to 1863, when no one even pretended there is a language definition for C. Currently I'm too lazy to write (and, even more work, test) a balanced tree myself. Maybe in another life...
Q: Why do You call it URI? I thought it's URL (Universal Resource Locator or U R lost)?
A: Ok, put a finger into your mouth and try to reach as far inside
as possible. After some specific point, you will empty your stomach.
And what do you say then? Exactly, ``URL''! So the main
reason why I do not like the term URL is because it always reminds me
of puking.
URI
A Universal Resource Identifier is a formatted string
that serves as an identifier for a resource, typically
on the Internet. URIs are used in HTML to identify the
destination of hyperlinks. URIs in common practice
include Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)[URL] and
Relative URLs [RELURL].
And one of the users of hsc submitted this interpretation to me:
To me it seems:
URI = URL and RELURL
URL = "http://www.intercom.no/~XXXXXX/index.html" - always the same doc
RELURL = "docs/about.html" - relative to which dir/machine you are on
Anyway, I really like that term URI a lot more and I've never really understood what's the difference between URL and URI. But who cares anyway?
Q: But URI reminds me of pissing! Add a simple ``n'', and there we are!
A: ..which I personally prefer to puking. Certainly a matter
of taste.
Q: What are jerks?
A: Jerks are persons suffered by a well-known epidemic called
Netscapissm. Their sources contain sections like
<BODY BGCOLOR=#123456>
<BLINK>Click here!</BLINK>
But, not all jerks became jerks because they like to be a jerk. Very often, jerks are forced to use code as seen above by their employee. In this case, they should be refered to as ``prostitutes''.