Department of Mathematical Sciences

Automated Personal Web Page Setup

Here is a sample of the output of this program.

1. To automate the generation of your personal page, please enter the following command at a command prompt on any of the departmental Sun computers (or an xterm window logged into a Sun computer from a Windows PC).
   
   homepage
   
   The program will ask you a few questions. It will create a directory (~/public_html) and a home page file (index.html) in it.
2. If you need to change information, you can just run the program again. When you run the program the second time, it will ask you the same questions again, however the defaults will be your previous input. If an item needs not to be changed, you can push return to confirm the previous input.
3. Each time you run the program, your previous homepage will be backed up as another file in the web page directory ~/public_html.
4. Also, the program will automatically detect if you have a picture file available. If so, it will include your picture in your home page. If you would like your picture scanned into a file, you may ask the Computer Committee for help.
5. You can modify your home page file manually after you use this program to create the file first time.