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#Cave Mapping program?

    11-Sep-95 13:26:41
Fm: Don Landis 71673,3612
To: John N. Jordan 72772,1271
>>(I'm using 32bit Netscape 1.1, running NT, 28.8 access, FWIW Hi John. Thanks for visiting my site. I'm aware of the problem. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer yet. It's wierd. Some browsers will get it but netscape does not. I have the latest 1.2 and can't get it. I also have Mosaic and it gets it fine. At any rate, I was edting the site probably when you were downloading. Now, there are two pictures on the home page and neither will come up with Netscape. Here's the difference which may give a clue as to why. The home page is created by AOL's Personal Publisher program. It links to the inline pictures and to my other pages which are totally created by me using HTML 2.0. All the HTML pages and graphics are located on one server/one directory (users.aol.com). The home page is on a different server(home.aol.com). I have to specify the complete path(ftp://users.aol.com/donlandis/private) to the other server for the links and it works for the pages and their images but not for inline images on the home page. This tells me there is some sort of bug in the way NETSCAPE sees paths for the inline images when it has to switch servers for any components of a page. My plan is to scrap the graphics for the home page and use it as a base to select my HTML pages. There are a few other options but for now this seems the best approach. I realize that Netscape is quite popular and even though I currently think it is a Netscape bug I can do a work around that will accomplish the BIG picture, which is to get my web pages visible. It could also be an AOL bug but I have not been able to isolate this as an incompatibility with netscape yet. I haven't found any other AOL home pages with graphics using netscape yet either. If I do then it would indicate that I did something wrong in the home page design. A local programmer told me that Netscape wants the images on the same server but can be in a different directory. He said he had the same problem at a local service provider. For Video Cave Maps the pointer or camera locator is done via an animation graphic. All this is tied into the survey data and coordinated with a duplicate video that follows the cave passage but has a depth gauge and compass in the screen. I then video tape the knotted guide line which gives me my distance. Repeating the dive without the guages in view and big lights I video the same tunnel for the production. This is the way I can accurately place the animation locator to the actual location in the cave. Yes, its a lot of work!