Short: 7200 Product-Info files - 940308 Author: fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com, et. al. Uploader: fnf fishpond cygnus com Type: fish/docs Architecture: generic This archive contains about 7200 Product-Info files, for material in my floppy library (disks 1-975), and material from the first 3 FreshFish CD-ROM's. Of these 7200 files, approximately 650 were created by either myself, the authors of the material, or other interested parties. The remaining files were automatically generated from "Contents" files that exist on each floppy and in some directories on the CD-ROM's. These automatically generated files may contain both subtle and gross errors. Hopefully they will eventually be replaced with human generated description files that are more accurate and more complete. Part of the reason for making these files available is to encourage interested parties (and particularly the authors) to submit better replacements. If you create replacements, please submit them to me in archived form with their complete pathnames intact, so all I have to do is unarchive them in a scratch directory somewhere, check them over, and then copy the entire tree of replacement files on top of the old tree, so that your replacements overwrite the files they are intended to replace. I do not want to have to hand copy hundreds of files to their appropriate locations in the tree based on a description of where they are intended to be placed. As an example, suppose you are the author of "MuchMore", and wish to clean up the Product-Info files in my database. A search (or grep) of the FileList file will reveal the following Product-Info files: AmigaLibDisk234/MuchMore/Product-Info AmigaLibDisk253/MuchMore/Product-Info AmigaLibDisk378/MuchMore/Product-Info AmigaLibDisk378/MuchMorePoPa/Product-Info AmigaLibDisk560/MuchMore/Product-Info AmigaLibDisk895/MuchMore/Product-Info AmigaLibDisk935/MuchMore/Product-Info AmigaLibDisk962/MuchMore/Product-Info FFMCD01/Old/AmigaLibDisks/Disks880-899/Disk895/MuchMore/Product-Info FreshFish-Dec93/New/AmigaLibDisks/Disk935/MuchMore/Product-Info FreshFish-Dec93/Old/AmigaLibDisks/Disks880-899/Disk895/MuchMore/Product-Info FreshFish-Mar94/New/AmigaLibDisks/Disk962/MuchMore/Product-Info FreshFish-Mar94/Useful/dist/text/show/MuchMore/Product-Info The best way to work on these would be to copy this tree of files to a scratch directory somewhere, make the appropriate changes, and then archive up the entire tree (again, including pathnames) and submit the lha archive to me via a email as a uuencoded lha archive. Don't just make one Product-Info file and indiscriminately copy it over all of the other Product-Info files for the same material. At the very least, the version numbers will almost certainly be different. The description of the material may change over time as well. This is OK. Each Product-Info file should be as accurate as possible for *that* *particular* *copy* of the corresponding material. It is up to the database builder or user interface to decide how to best present the material and link the different versions together. One possibility, for example, is to display the latest version based on either the ".version" field or the ".date" field, and provide links to the other earlier versions based on either the ".references" field or by building the links on the fly as each Product-Info is added to the database or accessed. Thanks for your help in improving these Product-Info files! -Fred