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Nope, the source isn't available. #http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport/fp2002sr1_download.h tm# cygwin may help by letting you familiarize yourself with some bash / linux /unix commands in a familiar environment before ditching the beast.

This seems pretty straight forward to me.

Perhaps you should find a new ISP since your current one is using obsolete software.

In my experience, FrontPage actually works quite a bit better with Apache 2.0. FrontPage for Apache 1.x requires patching your Apache or downloading pre-patched binaries from rtr.com or Microsoft. FrontPage for Apache 2 can load cleanly as a module, no server modifications needed.

If you want the offical notice of Apache 2 support, see here.

"I couldn't find it now."
Huh??? http://www.rtr.com/

FrontPage extensions for Linux/Apache are already available here.
and ASP for linux is available (in a limited form) here.

It allready exists, also from Ready-to-Run: http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport/ - note that Digital Unix, FreeBSD, BSDI, Linux (RedHat), Solaris, HPUX and IRIX are supported.

What license is it published under? I can't seem to find any mention of licensing on their website.

According to this page, Vim is public domain charity-ware. Bram Moolenaar, the creator of Vim, asks users who appreciate the software to contribute money to an orphange/hospital in Uganda.

I believe that the FSF objects to the public domain feature of the license, as it's not copyleft.

I agree with you: Vim is a great editor! It's a pity that my CS Department is an Emacs zone...

Interestingly, on reviewing the Wired article, I ran across a suggested link there that discussed a recent FrontPage Extensions security problem I wasn't aware of. Still haven't researched whether it affects the UNIX FP extensions, yet, but, I doubt it. Has to do with including standard DOS reserved commands in the URL to shtml.

What struck me as relevant was the tactic Micro$oft took when alerted by Sozni of Xato Network Security, in asking for a delay in disclosing the flaw until a patch was available. While that position on dealing with the reporting vendor isn't so noteworthy, what is curious is that the patch was available a over a week ago, and, I had never heard of it. It was quietly bundled into a service pack for the Server extensions and not well publicized.

I follow this stuff closely, and, am sure I would have been aware of it, had it been better disclosed by Micro$oft once the patch was available.

In an open product, disclosure is inevitable. Seems people might be considering this model to make better business sense.


Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com

• KProject, for KDE, claims to be under way.
• ProjectPak from Ready-To-Run, supposedly has a Linux version but I don't have any details.

I have used Netscape 3 Gold for Linux and it hasn't crashed on me once. I have also used Netscape 4.5 for Windows, and it crashes occasionally. I have never used IE3 or IE4, but I have used IE5 and it is ... not very good. As far as I have noticed, Netscape3 and IE5 can both render almost all pages on the web, with the exception of Java pages and Plugin pages. (I avoid pages using Plugins even under Windows, and I almost always have Java turned off.)

Lynx manages to render most pages on the 'net, and if you run it under X11 it can render graphics, too.

No matter what you do to Mozilla for Linux, it won't be able to use Microsoft's latest OLE/VB/whatever plugins. Microsoft seems to have polluted the Java standard, unfortunately, which means that Mozilla probably has a fair bit of catching up to do.

Microsoft does not (yet) control the server standards, except indirectly through the FrontPage extensions. I am not sure exactly what the purpose of these are. It is perhaps more likely that MS will pollute the internet mail standards, with more and more people using `free' services like Hotmail.

First there is of course CVS from http://www.cyclic.com. CVS isn't just for source code you know. It provides all that's needed to do complete web site management between a number of webmasters at once. It keeps a copy of every revision of every file, giving you access to it in case you change something by mistake. Other control systems like Aegis and RCS are equally usable.

There are MS Frontpage Extentions from http://www.rtr.com for Apache. These automate common tasks such as access controls, simple CGI. Frontpage, even thought it is a Microsoft product, isn't that bad of a program. It provides a fairly good UI for WYSIWYG editing of web pages along with a file manager resembling Microsoft Explorer. Frontpage 2000 will also feature a way to directly access your web pages from Microsoft Explorer via Network Neighborhood... which is pretty cool.

There is WebDAV from http://www.webdav.org for Apache. WebDAV is the "standard" extensions for Apache for web site editing. All your favorite programs should be using it in the future including Frontpage 2000, Dreamweaver (unconfirmed.. but hinted at), etc. It is currently supported by IE5's little editor dealy as well as a few simple clients for Unix.

More and more webmasters are having to conceed to using a WYSIWYG editor, as well they should. Web standards today are not exactly the simple tags they used to be. You have CSS, XML, XSL, HTML 4 with their complex box algorithms and silly incompatibilities between web browsers which make WYSIWYG programs very attractive. WYSIWYG editors have their place, don't dismiss them simply because the common-folk use them as well.

Then again, don't abandon source editing altogether, nothing beats a text editor when you need a quick fix :)

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