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< h2 id = "tophead" > CUCC Expedition Handbook< / h2 >
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< h1 > Troggle - the beginnings of a manual< / h1 >
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< p > Troggle runs much of the the cave survey data management, presents the data on the website and manages the Expo Handbook.
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< h3 > Rewrite from here on...< / h3 >
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< p > This troggle manual describes these:
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< li > Annual tasks: preparing for next year, finishing last year (troggle & scripts)
< li > Architectural documentation of how it all fits together & list of active scripts
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< li > How to edit and maintain troggle itself. The code is public on repository < a href = "../computing/repos.html" > :troggle:< / a >
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< p > This page is mostly an index to other records of what troggle is and what plans have been made - but never implemented - to improve it.
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Today troggle is used for only three things:
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< li > Reformatting all the visible webpages such that they have a coherent style and have a contents list at the top-left
hand corner. This is particularly true of the handbook you are reading now and the historic records of past expeditions.
< li > Publishing the "guidebook descriptions" of caves. The user who is creating a new guidebook description
can do this by filling-in some online forms. (And managing all the cave suvey data to produce this.)
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< li > Providing a secondary way of editing individual pages of the handbook and historic records pages
for very quick and urgent changes.
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This is the "Edit this page" capability; see < a href = "../computing/onlinesystems.html#editthispage" > for
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how to use it< / a > and < em > how to tidy up afterwards< / em > .
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< p > [Note that /survey_scans/ is generated by troggle and is not the same thing as /expofiles/surveyscans/ at all.]
< p > Only a small part of troggle's original plan was fully implemented and deployed.
Many of the things it was intended to replace are still operating as a motley collection written by many different people in
several languages (but mostly perl and python; we won't talk about the person who likes to use OCamL).
Today troggle is used for only three things:
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< li > Reformatting all the visible webpages such that they have a coherent style and have a contents list at the top-left
hand corner. This is particularly true of the handbook you are reading now and the historic records of past expeditions.
< li > Publishing the "guidebook descriptions" of caves. The user who is creating a new guidebook description
can do this by filling-in some online forms.
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< h3 > Troggle Login< / h3 >
< p > Yes you can log in to the troggle control panel: < a href = "http://expo.survex.com/troggle" > expo.survex.com/troggle< / a > .
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< h3 > < a id = "arch" > Archived updates< / a > < / h3 >
< p > Since 2008 we have been keeping detailed records of all data management system updates in the version control system.
Before then we manually maintained < a href = "../computing/update.html" > a list of updates< / a > which are now only of historical interest.
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< p > A history of the expo website and software was published in Cambridge Underground 1996. A copy of this article < a href = "../c21bs.html" > Taking Expo Bullshit into the 21st Century< / a > is archived here.
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Go on to: < a href = "trogarch.html" > Troggle architecture< / a > < br / >
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Return to: < a href = "trogintro.html" > Troggle intro< / a > < br / >
Troggle index:
< a href = "trogindex.html" > Index of all troggle documents< / a > < br / >
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