Browser append to file, and SPIRES server

Tim Berners-Lee (timbl)
Tue, 25 Feb 92 15:44:49 GMT+0100


Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 15:44:49 GMT+0100
From: timbl (Tim Berners-Lee)
Message-Id: <9202251444.AA04800@ nxoc01.cern.ch >
To: W.vanLeeuwen@nikhef.nl (Willem van Leeuwen)
Subject: Browser append to file, and SPIRES server
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch, pfkeb@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu



> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 13:40:05 +0100
> From: W.vanLeeuwen@nikhef.nl (Willem van Leeuwen)


> Some remarks about the new browser:
> 

> The use of >> to add text of a document to an existing file should  
be
> documented in the help:
>
>  > file          Save the text of this document in a file.
>  >>file          Add the text of this document to a file.
>

	Good point -- In fact I hadn't noticed that it works by
	virtue of the same code which makes ">" work!
	It's in the help for the next version.

> When browsing the SPIRES database one has to type find twice:
> the first is interpreted by the browser, the second by SPIRES.
> (The old browser used K, which could be omitted).

	Yes - This should be fixed at the server end.

> SPIRES does not give always the promised number of references.
> Try f find author holthuizen, there should be 111 references, only
> 104 are shown.

	This too.  The last one's a bit odd, as the limit seems to 

	vary. Perhaps its in lines. Another thing is taht the lines
	trainling spaces to 80 characters which makes them wrap aound
	a 79-character terminal. They could be stripped in the server
	EXEC too.

>Willem
	-Tim