Using the World Wide Web at the Lab

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Web Publishing, Publishing Tools, etc.

Colors

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UNIX Information

It's a 24-bit color value in RGB format: 8-bit red value, 8-bit green value, 8-bit blue value. if the red/green/blue values are equal, you'll get shades of grey. Please see, for example,
/usr/openwin/lib/rgb.txt and /usr/openwin/bin/showrgb
(These all dump in decimal.)

The 2 digits each in the samples below represent the redness, greenness, and blueness of a color, respectively.

"000000" means   0 red,   0 green and   0 blue:  black.
"FFFFFF" means 255 red, 255 green and 255 blue:  white.
"00FF00" means 000 red, 255 green and 000 blue:  green.
"00FFFF" means   0 red, 255 green and 255 blue:  cyan.
"3333FF" means 51 red, 51 green and   255 blue:  blue.
"FF0000" means 255 red,   0 green and   0 blue:  red.
"FF00FF" means 255 red,   0 green and 255 blue:  purple.
"FF1500" means 255 red, 165 green and   0 blue:  orange.
"FF8888" means 255 red, 136 green and 136 blue:  light red.
"FFFF00" means 255 red, 255 green and   0 blue:  yellow.
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Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Forms

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RosettaMan(reverse compile man pages from formatted form to a number of source formats, including HTML)

On the Computer Center Solaris machines,
module load RosettaMan makes rman available.

rman takes formatted man pages from most of the popu lar flavors of UNIX and transforms them into any of a number of text source formats. RosettaMan accepts formatted man pages from: Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, AT&T System V, SunOS, Sun Solaris, OSF/1, DEC Ultrix, SGI IRIX, Linux.

rman can produce ASCII-only, headers-only, TkMan, [tn]roff, Ensemble, SGML, HTML, LaTeX, RTF.
After module load RosettaMan, man rman gives details.
rman -help gives a synopsis.
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