Editing Files

• If your editor normally makes automatic backups of the files you edit, you may want to change its default behavior to help keep the Netlib repository reasonably clean. If you're using emacs you can do this by adding (setq make-backup-files nil) to your .emacs file.
• Check that we are the master site for the directory where you plan to edit.
• Edit the files with your favorite editor.
• Edit index and readme to reflect these changes. Don't edit index.html - that's generated automatically from index by a nightly cron job.
• Check that the edited files have no obvious editing errors.
• Check that the edited files have the desired permissions. Normally this would be read permission for the world and read/write permission for you and the group. "chmod 664 newfile" gives newfile those permissions.
• Run netlog. The netlog_cvs script for doing source control on readme and index files is invoked automatically by netlog. If you notice any error messages send a transcript of the session to the address below.

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