Here are some tips when adding, updating, or removing material from
the AlphaDocumentationPages site.

- How to add new (thumbnail) images of a system?

  1. Update the system's "media" HTML template file. Add the filenames
     of the images to the thumbnail tables (arrays).
  2. Run `make thumbnails' to fetch the images from the remote system
     and to update the thumbnail Makefile's. The system's "media"
     page is automatically updated.
  3. Install the web material into the WWW root by running the command
     `make install'. You may want to pass the "WWWROOT" variable with
     the correct WWW root when executing the `make' command.

- How to update thumbnails?

  Small Makefile's are generated for each system for retrieving and
  generating the thumbnails. The original images are downloaded from
  a remote system (see "drwbase" of `getvalue' script). The images are
  stored in the directory "sitedata/sysdata/images". Thumbnails are
  generated with the `mk_thumbnail' script.

  If you don't want to re-create all of the thumbnails, you can
  re-generate a specific thumbnail in two ways:
  
  1. Delete thumbnail file from the appropriate sub-directory under
     "sitedata/sysdata/images". The thumbnails start with the prefix
     "thumb_" (refer to "thumbnailprefix" of `getvalue' script).
  2. Force a download of the original image from the remote system. In
     this case, remove the downloaded image from the appropriate sub-
     directory under "sitedata/sysdata/images".

  Then, execute the "thumbnails" target of the Makefile followed by
  the "install" target.

- Compaq QuickSpecs Files

Older versions of the QuickSpecs files don't have a clearly visible
revision number. So, after comparing some newer and older files, I
believe I found the revision number for the older QuickSpecs files.

First, the naming of the QuickSpecs files often follows the
convention "<doc.id>_<area.code>.pdf". The <doc.id> code is a 5-digit
document ID, so it seems. The <area.code> appears to be a 2 or 3
letter code:

  "na"  - North America
  "ca"  - Canada (English)
  "caf" - Canada (French)
  "div" - Worldwide

The footer of each page in the older QuickSpecs files has a small
text string like "DA-10390-01-004 -- 12.03.1999". The one actually
belongs to an AlphaServer DS10. Disecting the text string:

  "DA"         - Seems to be a fixed prefix.
  "10390"      - Document ID. Should be the same as in the filename.
  "01"         - "Area  code", 2 or 3 symbols:

                 01:  North America (US)
                 02:  Canada (English)
                 03:  Canada (French)
                 00:  Worldwide
                 00A: Worldwide

  "004"        - Revision number.
  "12.03.1999" - Release date?