[ic] Pee-Poor Documentation Rant

[John Beima]

Why didn't you simply use the fortune usertag?

John


Quoting Jim Balcom <jim@idk-enterprises.com>:

> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 cfm@maine.com wrote:
> 
> >>I'll also bet, **without looking**, that one could grep examples of
> >>[file name=] or [include] tags in the standard demos.
> 
> You are exactly right. That's how I finally resolved the problem - not
> from
> the docs.
> 
> >>Inluding a random qotd is different.  Do you want it autogenerated
> >>with each page view, or really is it daily, meaning you also need
> >>to understand outside processes and permissions?  The docs will
> >>not cover how to run your system, either.  Nor should they.
> 
> That was the easy part. I simply set a cron event to run 'fortune' and
> to
> pipe the output into a file (qotd) in this case. It runs at midnight. IC
> picks up the content of QOTD and displays it.
> 
> The only help I was looking for when I RTFM was how to get the contents
> of
> the file into the web page. Grep got that answer for me, not the docs.
> 
> 
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