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Notes On Web References To Previous Page
This address works even if one of the multiple server boxes
physically dies.
These are provided in case one of the hosts is still responding
to domain traffic, but may temporarily not be running a web
server.
Other addresses
Numerous other addresses will work too, but many are obsolete,
so not quoted.
- The "~" Key is pronounced "Tilde".
- It tells a web server to look to the right for the name
of a user's home login web directory, rather than look in the
server's top common space.
- People with German keyboards usually find no "~"
key, as it's been replaced by some German umlaut.
- Many non computer people have a problem with the missing
Tilde key on German keyboards, so I provide a short cut that
avoids need of the Tilde for my "~jhs/" web directory.
- Web servers also allow people with no Tilde available to
type keyboard sequence "%7E" into the URL (web reference), in
place of each missing "~" character. (You can also use this
hexadecimal representation for other Ascii characters missing
from your keyboard).
- I quote full URLs with Tilde in place, as they are
official, & will still work, even if the short cut
without the Tilde might possibly one day temporarily break,
EG during server reconfiguration
- You need the Tilde character for all other individual
users' web directories on these web servers.
- How to convince your keyboard driver to generate a Tilde,
while running in German layout, is your affair, not mine,
& dependent on your knowledge of how your operating
system drives your keyboard.Read your manuals, or ask your
software vendor, not me. (If you are running Microsoft based
stuff, note I don't run any Microsoft based
software, & wouldn't even if they paid me (& the
thought of me paying them for their nasty product would be
farcical !) The software I run is
better: Infinitely cheaper & less virus prone. You are welcome to a free legal copy.
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