March 26, 1997

Why won’t my Perl program copy files from a virtual FTP directory to another?

Question: I have an account with a Web space provider which includes a virtual FTP area.I’m trying to write a perl program that, when run, will copy all files from the virtual FTP server directory (home/karting/ftp/incoming/MyDir) to my public_html directory (home/karting/public_html/MyDir) I’ve tried using the “rename” command, but nothing works!

How to view an image

Question: An old high school friend said he put a picture of himself on the Web, and to view it I should go to JPEG … WHAT DO I DO??? I’m new at this. Answer: You can view any image in .jpg and .gif format with your Web browser.Simply go

Why are textures important to the high-end rendering and 3D development market?

Question: Why are textures important to the high-end rendering and 3D development market? Answer: At the moment there is a “gold rush for textures” in this market. Companies such as SoftImage, Alias, MultiGen, Coryphaeus, Sense8 and Kinetix are all big texture users, and are focused on the games market. Saul

Screen resolution detection

Question: I need to know how to detect the screen resolution of the client machine. Then I need to tell it to go to specific pages based on what it finds out.. Is there a way to do that? Answer: No. You will need to design your pages so that

Is it possible to really touch something in VRML?

Question: Is it possible to really touch something in VRML, not just have a texture map that looks like a touchable surface? Answer: This depends on whether you have the appropriate hardware to give you what’s known as haptic or force-feedback. At the moment, because this area is so new,

Hyperlinks opening a new browser

Question: I’m working on a Web site in Microsoft Front Page, and when I browse the home page in either Netscape of Internet Explorer, all the hyperlinks on the page open a new browser. The only exceptions are the hyperlinks from the image maps. I don’t want this to happen,