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| Folders | Files | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| _overlay | *.gif | Overlay files for FrontPage's text on GIF and navigation button features. These files are transparent GIFs that are overlaid on top of base button or banner images to build a complete text on GIF or navigation button composite image. |
| _derived | *.htx, *.gif | Files that are dynamically generated by FrontPage that can be regenerated at any time, such as *.htx files created by the FrontPage Search Component (only when using IIS with Microsoft Index Server) and composite text on GIF images (for example, theme buttons and banners). |
| _borders | top.htm, left.htm, right.htm, bottom.htm | Shared border definition files that are included into pages using shared borders. |
| _themes | *.gif, *.inf, *.css files for each theme | FrontPage themes storage. Each theme that is applied to the web is uploaded into a uniquely named subfolder of the _themes directory. Each theme consists of GIF, CSS, and INF files that define the theme. |
| _fpclass | *.class | Compiled Java class files that implement the Banner Ad Manager and Hover Button FrontPage components. |
| _private | This folder is created in each FrontPage web. It is intended to contain user files that are not browsable. This feature does not work on IIS servers. | |
| _vti_bin | shtml.dll shtml.exe |
Stub FrontPage Server Extensions executables for runtime functionality. |
| fpcount.exe | Runtime portion of the FrontPage Hit Counter component. | |
| *.idq | Query files created by the FrontPage Search component when using IIS with Microsoft Index Server. These files reside in the _vti_bin directory in order to get execute permissions. | |
| _vti_bin/_vti_aut | author.dll author.exe |
Stub FrontPage Server Extensions executables for authoring functionality. |
| _vti_bin/_vti_adm | admin.dll admin.exe |
Stub FrontPage Server Extensions executables for security functionality. |
| _vti_bot | Used for custom FrontPage (WebBot) components created using the FrontPage SDK. This folder contains the implementations of custom FrontPage components. FrontPage custom components installed in these directories are optionally downloaded to the user's machine when that Component is inserted by the user. | |
| _vti_cnf | For each HTML page and graphics file in a FrontPage web there is a configuration file of the same name. | Each configuration page contains a set of name value pairs, identifying such things as the last author to edit a page or the program associated with a file. |
| _vti_log | Root web only. Only populated after the web administrator has enabled logging in the frontpg.ini or we<port>.cnf file. When active, an author.log file gets created here logging only FrontPage authoring and administration operations. | |
| _vti_pvt | _x_todo.htm | Contains the current settings of the To Do List. |
| _x_todoh.htm | Contains the changes to the To Do List. | |
| access.cnf | Contains HTTP server-specific access control information. | |
| administrators.pwd | On Netscape servers only. Encrypted names and passwords of administrators. | |
| authors.pwd | On Netscape servers only. Encrypted names and passwords of authors. | |
| bots.cnf | Used for custom WebBot components created using the FrontPage SDK. | |
| botinfs.cnf | Custom FrontPage (WebBot ) components information listing | |
| deptodoc.btr | Dependency database for the web. | |
| doctodep.btr | Dependency database for the web. | |
| frontpg.lck | Root Web only. Lock file to keep web server resources from being accessed simultaneously. Should be a zero-byte file at idle time. With IIS and WebSite servers, this file is located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft FrontPage\version3.0\temp, not in the web content area's _vti_pvt directory. | |
| linkinfo.cnf | Back links for URLs not in the current web. | |
| service.cnf | Contains meta-information about the web. | |
| service.grp | Lists the members of the Administrator and Author groups. Used only for CERN and NCSA servers. | |
| service.pwd | Contains the encrypted password files. Not used on IIS and WebSite servers. | |
| Service.stp | Contains the absolute file system path to the FrontPage web's service.pwd and service.grp files. Used only for CERN and NCSA servers. | |
| services.cnf | Root web only. Contains the list of sub-webs. | |
| services.org | Root web only. File used as the basis for services.cnf when reinstalling the Server Extensions, so that sub-webs are recreated as sub-webs instead of as subdirectories of the root web. | |
| service.lck | Lock file to keep web resources from being accessed simultaneously. Should be a zero-byte file at idle time. | |
| structure.cnf | Contains FrontPage web navigational information storage. | |
| svcacl.cnf | Root web only. File used to store whether sub-webs have unique permissions settings and any IP Address restrictions, so that when reinstalling the Server Extensions the correct permissions settings are reapplied to any sub-webs. | |
| users.pwd | On Netscape servers only. Encrypted names and passwords of end-users. | |
| uniqueperm.cnf | Used on IIS only. The presence of this file indicates that the sub-web has unique permissions settings, as opposed to inheriting permissions from the root web. Present only in sub-webs. | |
| writeto.cnf | Back links for files that can be written to by users of the web, such as Save Results Form handler result files. Files that can be written to by users of the web have a looser security setting than regular web content. | |
| _vti_map | Contains image map files. | |
| _vti_txt | This folder contains text indices for the WAIS search engine only. It is not used by Index Server on IIS. |
FrontPage also includes Server Extensions configuration files. See Using the FrontPage Configuration File for details on Server Extensions configuration files naming convention and file locations.
| Subsystem | Definition | Affected Stores |
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| Document parsing and attribute discovery | Document parser plus title, base, link extractor | _vti_cnf, link content (read only) _vti_txt |
| Document expansion | Bot expansion, themes, borders,URL macros, link fix-up, taking page styles from other pages | _vti_cnf · link map service.cnf (read) deptodoc, doctodep structure store (read) bot meta-info (read) _themes content _vti_map _overlay (read) frontpg.ini (read) |
| Source control | VSS integration | VSS database content _vti_cnf service.cnf structure.cnf _overlay |
| Structure store | Web structure store | structure store · content _vti_cnf trigger dependency recalculation |
| Access control | Setting permissions on web | svcacl.cnf, access.cnf content web server config (read) |
| Todo list | Todo list | to do list |
| File system management | Generic reading, writing, etc. of files | content trigger dependency recalculation _vti_cnf |
| Meta-info store | Combined meta-information stores | _vti_cnf service.cnf frontpg.ini (read) trigger dependency recalculation |
| Dependency management | Managing relationships between documents, structure store, time, meta-info, etc. | _vti_cnf deptodoc, doctodep service.cnf (autorecalc bit) |
| Text indexing/searching | Internal WAIS text index | service.cnf frontpg.ini (read) _vti_txt |
| Logging | Only author and admin ops | _vti_log |
| "Open bot" management | Install and execution of open bots | bots.cnf (read) botinfs.cnf (read) _vti_bot (read) |
| Web server management | Marking folders as executable, readable, etc. Getting URL to file mappings, etc. | frontpg.ini (read) web server configuration |
| Locking | Internal based, not user driven | _vti_pvt/service.lck |
Society
Groupthink : Two Party System as Polyarchy : Corruption of Regulators : Bureaucracies : Understanding Micromanagers and Control Freaks : Toxic Managers : Harvard Mafia : Diplomatic Communication : Surviving a Bad Performance Review : Insufficient Retirement Funds as Immanent Problem of Neoliberal Regime : PseudoScience : Who Rules America : Neoliberalism : The Iron Law of Oligarchy : Libertarian Philosophy
Quotes
War and Peace : Skeptical Finance : John Kenneth Galbraith :Talleyrand : Oscar Wilde : Otto Von Bismarck : Keynes : George Carlin : Skeptics : Propaganda : SE quotes : Language Design and Programming Quotes : Random IT-related quotes : Somerset Maugham : Marcus Aurelius : Kurt Vonnegut : Eric Hoffer : Winston Churchill : Napoleon Bonaparte : Ambrose Bierce : Bernard Shaw : Mark Twain Quotes
Bulletin:
Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks The efficient markets hypothesis : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013 : Unemployment Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 23, No.10 (October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments : Slightly Skeptical Euromaydan Chronicles, June 2014 : Greenspan legacy bulletin, 2008 : Vol 25, No.10 (October, 2013) Cryptolocker Trojan (Win32/Crilock.A) : Vol 25, No.08 (August, 2013) Cloud providers as intelligence collection hubs : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : Inequality Bulletin, 2009 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Copyleft Problems Bulletin, 2004 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Energy Bulletin, 2010 : Malware Protection Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 26, No.1 (January, 2013) Object-Oriented Cult : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 : Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification of sysadmin horror stories : Vol 25, No.05 (May, 2013) Corporate bullshit as a communication method : Vol 25, No.06 (June, 2013) A Note on the Relationship of Brooks Law and Conway Law
History:
Fifty glorious years (1950-2000): the triumph of the US computer engineering : Donald Knuth : TAoCP and its Influence of Computer Science : Richard Stallman : Linus Torvalds : Larry Wall : John K. Ousterhout : CTSS : Multix OS Unix History : Unix shell history : VI editor : History of pipes concept : Solaris : MS DOS : Programming Languages History : PL/1 : Simula 67 : C : History of GCC development : Scripting Languages : Perl history : OS History : Mail : DNS : SSH : CPU Instruction Sets : SPARC systems 1987-2006 : Norton Commander : Norton Utilities : Norton Ghost : Frontpage history : Malware Defense History : GNU Screen : OSS early history
Classic books:
The Peter Principle : Parkinson Law : 1984 : The Mythical Man-Month : How to Solve It by George Polya : The Art of Computer Programming : The Elements of Programming Style : The Unix Haters Handbook : The Jargon file : The True Believer : Programming Pearls : The Good Soldier Svejk : The Power Elite
Most popular humor pages:
Manifest of the Softpanorama IT Slacker Society : Ten Commandments of the IT Slackers Society : Computer Humor Collection : BSD Logo Story : The Cuckoo's Egg : IT Slang : C++ Humor : ARE YOU A BBS ADDICT? : The Perl Purity Test : Object oriented programmers of all nations : Financial Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : The Most Comprehensive Collection of Editor-related Humor : Programming Language Humor : Goldman Sachs related humor : Greenspan humor : C Humor : Scripting Humor : Real Programmers Humor : Web Humor : GPL-related Humor : OFM Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : IDS Humor : "Linux Sucks" Humor : Russian Musical Humor : Best Russian Programmer Humor : Microsoft plans to buy Catholic Church : Richard Stallman Related Humor : Admin Humor : Perl-related Humor : Linus Torvalds Related humor : PseudoScience Related Humor : Networking Humor : Shell Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2012 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2013 : Java Humor : Software Engineering Humor : Sun Solaris Related Humor : Education Humor : IBM Humor : Assembler-related Humor : VIM Humor : Computer Viruses Humor : Bright tomorrow is rescheduled to a day after tomorrow : Classic Computer Humor
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