Silicon Sam's Technology Resource
Local Installation

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Basic Installation
• Icons and Links

Introduction

Note: Some of these documents (the large electronics and appliance repair guides) are not as nicely formatted as those at the Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ sites - which you may prefer to view on-line. However, the ugly ones may be more recent versions.

Basic Installation

• See Home and Mirror Site Locations to identify a site with a ZIPPED version of SSTR.

• Download all-faqs.zip into a new directory (or the same directory as Sam's Laser FAQ) and decompress it (unix unzip or DOS PKUNZIP):
  • Extract all files: unzip all-faqs
  • Extract selected files: unzip (or PKUNZIP) -x all-faqs file1 file2 ...
  • Directory of all-faqs: unzip (or PKUNZIP) -v all-faqs

  (Answer 'yes' or 'all' to any duplicate file queries.)

  The files "faqfil.htm", "cdfaqfil.htm", (and "laserfil.htm" if Sam's Laser FAQ was downloaded and decompressed) contain a summary of all the HTML, photos, diagrams, and schematics which constitute this release.

• When "sammenu.htm" is accessed using a Web browser, everything may be viewed directly. If you want the entry point to be to a short file located elsewhere, move "faqsam.htm" to the desired dirrectory and modify its links to point to the directory where you have put all the text and graphics files.

• Your browser needs to be configured properly to make sense of the many ASCII diagrams, schematics, and tables. See the document: Suggested Browser Settings for font and other related information.

• If you are not planning to have Sam's Laser FAQ loaded locally but would like the laser related links to be live, edit "sammenu.htm" and replace the text strings: "lasersam.htm", "laserfil.htm", and "laserpic/laesrpic.htm", with links to files of the same names in the SSTR directory at one of the sites found in "samsites.htm".

• The file "emaillnk.htm" contains a redirect to email links for the Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ authors (Sam and Fil), as well as the general Feedback Form. Edit this file if the location of the email contacts page should change in the future.

I routinely test all of this on both Unix (Sun OS/Solaris) and DOS under Win95/Win98. Please let me know if there are any problems.

Icons and Links

• To create a link to SSTR from an existing Web page, use a text or HTML editor to add the following lines to it:

  <li><a href="sammenu.htm">SSTR Main ToC</a>  <a href="sammenu.htm">
    <img WIDTH=64 HEIGHT=64 src="sstr.gif" alt="SSTR" align=middle
    border=0></a> - Comprehensive Repair Guides, FAQs, Testing Info,
    Assorted Schematics, etc.
  

  This will add the SSTR icon and create hot links to the SSTR Main Table of Contents as long as it is in the same directory with an appearance similar to this:
  • SSTR Main ToC - Comprehensive Repair Guides, FAQs, Testing Info, Assorted Schematics, etc.

  Edit as appropriate for your complete path if located elsewhere or to link to the S.E.R FAQ.

• If you are running Win95 or Win98 (I don't know if this works for Win3.1x), the .ico format icon files can be used when accessing SSTR or the full S.E.R FAQ from a folder or the desktop.

  To add a link from the Win95 desktop directly to the Silicon Sam's Technology Resource main menu, via Netscape, surf over to your copy of "sammenu.htm" and press and hold the left mouse button while dragging the local "Main Menu" or its icon hot link to the desktop. Create a shortcut there and then edit its properties to use the icon of your choice! (You can do the same thing with any of the other hot links instead if you do not intend to maintain a local copy of these documents.)