[NTLK] Best place to contribute to NPDS docs

Tom tom+newtontalk at falkensweb.com
Sat Nov 15 16:03:01 PST 2025


Hi,

What's the best way to contribute to the NPDS docs ?

1. This handy page http://npds.free.fr/docs/new/GIFServerSyntax.html[1] doesn't seem to be linked from the main page at http://npds.free.fr/modules/[2] - I'm not sure where I found it !

2. And in that "new" page, it links to a Mac-specific archive, that contains Mac-specific PICT files as examples for the "magic" links to built in graphics. Less useful than could be :)

I'm extracting what I think are all working images from my Newton, and putting into a useful list here : https://falkensweb.com/pages/newton-pictures/[3]

Using the GIF Server NPDS module itself seems a little unreliable, most of the time the images load *much* later or not all once I add more than one or two to the index page. 
See for instance `http:/newton dot falkensweb.com colon 3443` ( as screenshot-ed on https://qoto.org/@falken/115556119951146123[4] ) the "try letters" text is the ALT for the actual Newton "magic" image number 801.

I don't know if that's expected or not, and I'm also having to try all numbers from 1 to 900 as there doesn't seem a list ?

-- 
Tom
MessagePad 110, 2100 owner and, in case it's not obvious, geek.

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[1] http://npds.free.fr/docs/new/GIFServerSyntax.html
[2] http://npds.free.fr/modules/
[3] https://falkensweb.com/pages/newton-pictures/
[4] https://qoto.org/@falken/115556119951146123


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