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NWE Help: Make Help Pages: Update
The NWE has a fairly sophisticated system for updating its homepage and the items that appear in the "New in the NWE" box. A series of cgi scripts gather information from associated files and perform the updates. The scripts run automatically each night at 2 a.m., but they also can be executed manually.
The first step in creating an update is making a new file in the /writing/update directory. The file should be saved in ASCII text with the suffix "update." The file format is very similar to that of the NWE help pages, but the header information is different. The top of each update document must contain the following four lines:
- The "headline" that will appear inside the "New in the NWE" box.
- A brief description that will appear below the headline.
- A more detailed description that will appear on the index page for /writing/update.
- Repeat the more detailed description to appear on the individual page for that update.
NOTE: updates are performed nightly by the "Daily" script and should not be performed by hand due to file ownership and permission issues.