Storing the Journal for Reading Off-Line

by Bill Ritchie: writchie@bigfoot.com
and Brian Grainger: brian@grainger1.freeserve.co.uk

There are a number of ways to read this journal:

• Read it on-line. That's OK if you live in the USA and enjoy free local calls, however, the poor Europeans amongst us may wish to digest its contents off-line.
• Flick through each page quickly then go off-line and read it on the Browser before closing it down. The pages will be stored on your disk as temporary internet files, so this should be easy enough to do.
• Download the zip file below. (Go Now). Go offline and expand it to the appropriate directory (see below). View the journal offline at your leisure.

Most people may prefer the third method, because it's cheaper, but the advantage of an electronic journal is that it can be cross referenced by hyperlinks. As it continues to grow you should be able to read the current edition and flick back to previous editions by following the links - that's the whole essence of HTML!  It is for that reason that I have structured this electronic journal and the web site's folders in a way that will make off-line storage and reading a reasonably easy task. All you need to do to achieve the goal is to save each journal, along with its graphics, and you will then be able to enjoy it at your leisure. Not only that it should build into a useful electronic reference.

The first thing you need to do is to create a directory structure the same as the one I have on our Internet site. Whilst you don't necessarily need this now, it will become important with subsequent editions as the Journals continue to build. For ease of reference I have shown how it is laid out below:

The bulk of the ICPUG  web pages are contained in the national folder (or directory). You don't actually need to create such a folder unless you want to copy all the other pages, but you should create the folders from "journals" onwards down to ej600.

This copy of the journal is stored in ej600 (because it's the 6th Journal of 2000). We aim to publish six journals per year.

All you have to do to save this Journal is to download the file below and unzip it into your ej600 folder on your hard disk.

DOWNLOAD THIS FILE

ej600.zip

Having done everything above, you are ready to read off-line. Do a FILE OPEN from your browser. Go to  the ej600 directory, select index.htm and load it. You should now be looking at the Journal Cover Page. All the links should work as you flick through the Journal - with the exception of the HOME link which would attempt to take you back to the Group's Home page which is in the national directory. If you try to use that you will simply get a message from your Browser stating that it is unable to find that link. The What's New at ICPUG will have the same effect.

Obviously if you click on the YAHOO link your browser will attempt to go on-line, and go to the YAHOO site, so that's probably another one to avoid during your off-line reading session.

Give it a whirl, and enjoy reading the Journal off-Line.

The Webmaster: brian@grainger1.freeserve.co.uk

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