DOS Publications Reference

[Richard Bonner]

Doctor DOS' Publications Reference Grew
to be too Large and has been Subdivided

Persons seeking DOS print references for its run from the 1980s
until the present may be interested in this webpage.

The main table of contents and a publications-specific search
engine is at:
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/Publicat/

[Todd Vargo]

Post by Richard Bonner
Doctor DOS' Publications Reference Grew
to be too Large and has been Subdivided
Persons seeking DOS print references for its run from the 1980s
until the present may be interested in this webpage.
The main table of contents and a publications-specific search
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/Publicat/

I stopped looking after 15 seconds because the page background still hurts
my eyes. But don't change it on my account. I'm sure others have no problem
reading it.

[Paul Bartlett]

Post by Todd Vargo

Post by Richard Bonner
[...]
Persons seeking DOS print references for its run from the 1980s
until the present may be interested in this webpage.
The main table of contents and a publications-specific search
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/Publicat/

I stopped looking after 15 seconds because the page background still
hurts my eyes. But don't change it on my account. I'm sure others
have no problem reading it.

I myself had no difficulty with it, but I fully understand that visual
capacity varies and that therefore the site may be problematic for
some.

[Klaus Meinhard]

Hallo Richard,

Post by Richard Bonner
Doctor DOS' Publications Reference Grew
to be too Large and has been Subdivided
Persons seeking DOS print references for its run from the 1980s
until the present may be interested in this webpage.
The main table of contents and a publications-specific search
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/Publicat/

Nice work. One of the last remaining DOS sites still alive.

Don't worry about the specific background of that page. I'd worry more
about the fact that every one of your pages/topics has a different
background (and some have none). This precludes that your readers see
your site as a unity (imagine a big enterprise changing its letterhead
every week. They don't. That's called corporate identity.)

A quick look over <http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/Websites.html>
shows some small quirks that could easily be fixed: you start each
entry with either "-" or "- " (note the trailing space). Select one or
better still none and keep to it :-)

4DOSsites (several times) and 7Zip and 16-Bit OS are all outside of
alphabetical ordering. Numbers should go first.

Needless to say: many links are broken, sames as on my pages. DOS is
an OS of the last millenium <sigh>.

[Dr J R Stockton]

Post by Klaus Meinhard
Needless to say: many links are broken, sames as on my pages. DOS is
an OS of the last millenium <sigh>.

You presumably mean external links.

LinkScan at <http://www.elsop.com/quick/quick.cgi> will find those
effectively, finding replacement links is harder.

A _copy_ of <http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/linxchek.htm> should, if the
instructions are followed, find broken internal relative links, by using
JavaScript to inspect the internal representation of pages. As a bonus,
it also can check YYYY-MM-DD DoW.

It is written for Windows, and the instructions include
DIR /B /S > $DIR.TXT
which makes it on-topic. That part of the instructions probably needs
adaptation for other OSs.

It's been tested on an Austrian sire, and an Australian one; and mine.

[Klaus Meinhard]

Hallo Dr J R Stockton,

Post by Dr J R Stockton
LinkScan at <http://www.elsop.com/quick/quick.cgi> will find those
effectively, finding replacement links is harder.

I used to do scans regularly, when I still had the motivation, but
there were enough false positives and negatives you had to check
manually to still make it a drag.

[Dr J R Stockton]

Post by Richard Bonner
Doctor DOS' Publications Reference Grew
to be too Large and has been Subdivided
Persons seeking DOS print references for its run from the 1980s
until the present may be interested in this webpage.
The main table of contents and a publications-specific search
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/Publicat/

The source file of that page, and I suppose others on your site, would
be much nicer if you were to use a CSS stylesheet to control the common
features.

It is possible, I think, to control the selection of stylesheets in
JavaScript, which can handle cookies.

You could then use one sheet for everything, EXCEPT that there would be
a subsidiary sheet which changed the horrible light-on-dark to the
popular dark-on-light. With the subsidiary enabled/diabled with a
cookie, and a communal JavaScript include file to show buttons to set
the cookie, the user would only need to choose once, or once per
session.

CAVEAT : I use JavaScript and stylesheets, but I've not combined them to
do exactly that.

The page reads better in Firefox Print Preview, but there the links do
not work.

Regards,