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document still unavailable --unknown, Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:23:56 -0600 reply
The exact links I'm pointed to are http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/images/WesterProblemSet.pdf http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/images/WesterProblemSet.dvi and so forth

confusion ... re: document still unavailable. --Bill Page, Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:20:22 -0600 reply
I don't know exactly what's happening here. When I tried the links just now, they failed as you said. But I am sure that I did a refresh (see bottom right corner of page) and tested this yesterday. refresh recreates the files.

So I did a refresh again. And now they work again.

Please try again. If the links don't work. Hit refresh and see if that helps.

Even more confusion! --unknown, Sat, 04 Feb 2006 06:23:17 -0600 reply
When I click on any of those buttons, the same page indicating the non-existence of the document under consideration appears. But on hitting refresh, and then clicking on the button seem to work for me.

What's refresh anyway? And what does tangle button, which makes it appearance on the rhs of the greyish download strip, does?

something seems remove the files --Bill Page, Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:02:28 -0600 reply
Must be some subtle coding error I guess, but something seems cause these files to disappear after some period of time. Right now I do not have any idea of the possible cause.

The refresh button causes the entire contents of the page to be re-generated from the underlying source (i.e. the source is what you see whey you click edit) and is the same as the contents of the src link - it is the pamphlet source file itself. refresh runs weave on the pamphlet file to generate the LaTeX? (tex) file and then runs latex to generate the dvi, and dvips to generate the ps file and ps2pdf to generate the pdf and finally dvipng to display the graphic image of the first page.

Pamphlet files are intended to be used for both documentation and the program code itself.

tangle is used to extract the code chunks (programs) from the pamphlet file. In the case of the Wester problem set, this pamphlet file does not contain any separately identified code chunks (but it should!).

For more information about pamphlet files see [Literate Programming]?.

bug fixed --Bill Page, Sat, 04 Feb 2006 13:46:10 -0600 reply
I think I found what was causing the pdf and related files to be deleted. It turned out that the LaTeX? output generation in another part of FriCASWiki? (actually part of LatexWiki? - latexWrapper.py) was being too agressive about cleaning up what it assumed were just unneeded temporary files. The result was that if someone clicked Save on some other page that contained some new LaTeX? or Axiom code, then as a side-effect of generating the required png images, it also deleted files that it should not have.

Please let me know if the problem of disappearing files happens again.