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What MakeAlbum does
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MakeAlbum creates an online photo album for picture files.

The album consists of a set of HTML files. To view the album, load the file ALBUM.HTML (or ALBUM.HTM if you have used the /htm command line option) into a browser that understands frames. 

If your favorite browser does not know about frames, load the file CONTENTS.HTML (or CONTENTS.HTM if you have used the /htm command line option) instead.

MakeAlbum itself does not care about the format of the picture files. Of course your HTML viewer should be able to display the file formats.

See "makealbum /h" for further infos.

Note that MakeAlbum requires access to functions from the RexxUtil Library. Hence, this library has to be made available for the Rexx interpreter prior to calling this script. See below for further information.

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This is important!
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MakeAlbum is freeware. You pay for nothing, and I don't guarantee anything!

Please distribute only the complete and unmodified MakeAlbum package. Otherwise. add another readme file (call it, say, readme2) that describes your modifications.

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Files in this distribution
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In the makealbum directory:

makealbum.cmd             - The source code and executable
readme                    - This file
register-rexxutil-dll.cmd - Script to register RexxUtil.dll library (see below)

In the makealbum\pgp directory:

makealbum.sig             - My PGP signature for MakeAlbum.cmd
readme.sig                - My PGP signature for readme
register-rexxutil-dll.sig - Signature for register-rexxutil-dll.cmd

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The most recent version of MakeAlbum
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I will upload the most recent version of MakeAlbum to Hobbes (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/ or ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/) only.

I have no particular preferences for Hobbes, except that it's one of the better known OS/2 software servers.

You may also check http://homepages.together.net/~rolf for a link to a newer revision.

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How to use MakeAlbum
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The output of "makealbum /h" should tell you everything you need.

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How to make MakeAlbum a WPS application
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Use a Program template and put, for example, "/s /d %* *.jpg" in the parameter field, of course without the quotes.

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RexxUtil library
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MakeAlbum requires functions from the RexxUtil DLL.

These functions are also used by many other Rexx scripts. So, instead of trying again and again to register these functions each time you run a script that needs them, you should consider loading them when you start your system. 

To do this, put the script REGISTER-REXXUTIL-DLL.CMD (or a link to this script) into your startup folder.

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Miscellaneous
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To get my PGP public key, send me an empty email with "send pgp key" in the subject line.

Feel free to send me any suggestions for improvements of MakeAlbum. Of course I'd also appreciate a short note, if you actually use this program. 

For you Germans out there: Ihr knnt mir auch in Deutsch schreiben :-)

My version of Netscape Navigator (which is 4.04, German) has problems with filenames that contain non-ASCII characters. So, if you get an error message that Netscape Navigator cannot find, say, a file "   xxx   .html" and that file's name actually is "xxx.html" it's very likely that this is not a problem of MakeAlbum.

My version of Netscape Navigator also sometimes has problems to display graphics. Usually F5 (Relaod) helps in this case. This seems not to be related to the HTML code generated by MakeAlbum. Send me a note if you find out otherwise.





Rolf Lochbhler <rolf@together.net>
http://homepages.together.net/~rolf
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$Id: readme,v 1.5 1999-08-14 15:21:15-04 rl Exp $
