Francois Sillion (Francois.Sillion++at++imag.fr)
Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:47:22 +0100 (MET)
2.4 Prerequisites
To use the IRIS Performer API Search Tool, you must have
HTTP Server Software running that has the /var/www/htdocs
directory as the document root. The server also needs to
have the /var/www/cgi-bin directory configured to accept
cgi's. As of IRIX 6.2, all systems come with HTTP Server
Software preinstalled that use the /var/www/htdocs as the
document root. The /var/www/cgi-bin directory is also
configured to accept cgi's. This is the defualt
configuration. If your system is not configured this wa way,
you need to consult your system administrator. If you need
help configuring your HTTP server, please read the
instructions that came with your HTTP Server Software.
On our systems we are not using HTTP server software at this time. I am not
sure we will want, or be able to, start running it just to access the
Performer API information. In general I believe we try to avoid running any
not-strictly-necessary software on our Onyx2 to maintain performance...
Right now the only working source of documentation is 'man (1)'. This seems
like a real time warp bringing us some years in the past :-) I don't
even know how to print a man page! I really wish
there was a more flexible way to install either a complete Insight book, or
the API search tool... jumping to sgi.com is simply not practical from
France..
By the way, the URL listed in the Insight book
(http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals/3000/007-3632-001/html) produces
the following results:
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Not Found
The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated,
inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it.
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Sharon Clay wrote:
>
> The API reference guides are on-line in insight and are just API listings and do
> not have the man pages to try to keep them to a short and printable form.
> The general feedback that we got was that including the printed man pages
> was NOT worth the cost in trees :-)
> However, if being able to buy printed man pages seems like a real advantage to many,
> we can add it back as a separate order.
> It'd probably cost around $200 for the set or maybe half that
> for just one. Shocking I know but for these low volume printings of big books it
> isn't cheap. Go to Kinkos to make a copy and it will cost you a whole lot more!
>
> May I also suggest that you check out the API search tool in the performer_tools
> subsystem. This is very handing for checking out and searching API and man pages
> and sample programs, both C and C++.
>
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> Sharon Rose Clay - Silicon Graphics, Advanced Systems Dev.
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