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Stan Hilliard
I post this here because someone else might benefit from what I
learned. I made my legacy FP discussion web work with FP2002
extensions. Even though I have closed the discussion to new posts (by
removing disc1sam_post.htm), I wanted to have it on-line because it
contained a lot of good technical discussion. I have been using FP2000
extensions instead of the latest FP2002 because of the bug in FP2002
that is incompatible with FP discussions.
My active discussion is a new phpBB forum.
But recently I needed to use the newer FP2002 extensions in my main
web because FP2000 cannot handle my new user input form that saves
data to a file, sends me an email, and loads a confirmation form.
My ISP upgraded the FP extensions from 2000 to 2002. The discussion
web seemed OK until I recalculated hyperlinks. That hosed the contents
frame, which then did not contain the topic titles but contained only
text string: "|_disc1sam/_disc1sam/tocproto.htm|".
Here is the solution that worked for me.
There is no such folder as "_disc1sam/_disc1sam/" so I created one.
Then I copied all of the messages in "_disc1sam/" (files with names
like 000005d1.htm) to the new "_disc1sam/_disc1sam/"
It was as simple as that. And the discussion continues to work after
hyperlinks are recalculated.
This might not work with discussions that still accept new posts, as
they might not go into "_disc1sam/_disc1sam/" -- unless the FP2002
extensions know to do it. There are other problems with new posts with
FP2002 extensions. The messages will either not wrap long lines into
onscreen paragraphs, or multi paragraphs will combine all paragraphs
in a report into one long paragraph.
The Frontpage discussion running on FP2002 extensions is here:
http://samplingplans.com/forum/
It is on a windows server.
Stan Hilliard
learned. I made my legacy FP discussion web work with FP2002
extensions. Even though I have closed the discussion to new posts (by
removing disc1sam_post.htm), I wanted to have it on-line because it
contained a lot of good technical discussion. I have been using FP2000
extensions instead of the latest FP2002 because of the bug in FP2002
that is incompatible with FP discussions.
My active discussion is a new phpBB forum.
But recently I needed to use the newer FP2002 extensions in my main
web because FP2000 cannot handle my new user input form that saves
data to a file, sends me an email, and loads a confirmation form.
My ISP upgraded the FP extensions from 2000 to 2002. The discussion
web seemed OK until I recalculated hyperlinks. That hosed the contents
frame, which then did not contain the topic titles but contained only
text string: "|_disc1sam/_disc1sam/tocproto.htm|".
Here is the solution that worked for me.
There is no such folder as "_disc1sam/_disc1sam/" so I created one.
Then I copied all of the messages in "_disc1sam/" (files with names
like 000005d1.htm) to the new "_disc1sam/_disc1sam/"
It was as simple as that. And the discussion continues to work after
hyperlinks are recalculated.
This might not work with discussions that still accept new posts, as
they might not go into "_disc1sam/_disc1sam/" -- unless the FP2002
extensions know to do it. There are other problems with new posts with
FP2002 extensions. The messages will either not wrap long lines into
onscreen paragraphs, or multi paragraphs will combine all paragraphs
in a report into one long paragraph.
The Frontpage discussion running on FP2002 extensions is here:
http://samplingplans.com/forum/
It is on a windows server.
Stan Hilliard