RE: Publish or upload- correct use of terminology?

[Mike Adams <Mike_Adams -at- summithq -dot- com>]

Hi,

Normally, files uploaded to the htdocs (typical default directory for a
user's html) have a default mask that allows them to be served without
further intervention.

The whole upload vs. publish thing came about when they started letting just
anyone get on the net ;-) Just kidding (about the just anyone part). Upload
is upload unless the application is dumbed down for very non-technical types
(unlike my 9yo daughter who knows what uploading is) and has a button
labeled publish. 

Cheers,


Mike.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada [mailto:jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 3:41 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Publish or upload- correct use of terminology?


To carry this further...I'm on shaky ground here and I'm pulling this
from way back in the deep dark recesses of the mind, but when you
upload a file to a UNIX system, don't you have to do something
involving a MOD command to have it available to users?

I'd assume that publishing incorporates this step where just plain
uploading wouldn't do so.


--- Tom Murrell <trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> I feel a need to weigh in on this one. (Sorry, I tried laying down,
> but the urge didn't go away. <g>> 

> > I have to disagree on that one. "Publish" is just a dumbing done
> > performed by M$ when they thought up Frontpage. The term is


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