In article <1994Jul5.155019.26804@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Deus Ex Machina) writes: > In article <1994Jul2.192010.26751@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] writes: >> I have a quick question: >> >> How do I allow users to retrieve a particular file from my account while they >> are using my WWW Home Page? Wouldn't the command syntax within the HTML doc >> read something to this affect: >> >> <A HREF=file://miavx1.muohio.edu/sys_users/bte/tdabbott/todd.gif> Click here >> </A> >> >> For some reason, it says enter filename to save, and then doesn't proceed to >> send it. Any suggestions?? >> >> [log in to unmask] >> WWW Home Page http://miavx1.acs.muohio.edu/sys_users/bte/tdabbott/intro.html >> > > [Ac]tually, Mr. Abbott, you've got a fatal problem in the structure of your URL. > It SHOULD probably read like this: > http://miavx1.acs.muohio.edu/sys_users/bte.tdabbott/intro.html. Note that it's > bte.tdabbot not bte/tdabbott. It should be the other way, but ahh, fickle VMS, > we love it so. Actually, it should work both ways. The WWW server converts the path to somethng that makes more since to VMS. What makes you think that .../bte/tdabbott/... doesn't work? Have you found problems using this? > And how's come when I posted about WWW pages on MIAVX1 'bout three months ago I > was told it wasn't possible for individuals to create them? I am disproven, > happily so, but still... was it possible all along and the bureaucracy was just > lying to me? That sure would reinforce my paranoia. Actually, it was a little of both. Three months ago, this was not possible (actually, it had never been configured). We played around with the configuration, got it to work, and then had to decide if we wanted to support this. I'm not sure if we currently consider this an experimental service or a production service at this point (My guess is that it is still experimental and is subject to change in the future...kinda like PINE). -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask] (internet) kacovert@miavx1 (bitnet)