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47 lines
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PHP
@extends('layout.main')
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@section('content')
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<p class="mt-3">Welcome to <i><b>DECPDF</b></i>, the searchable and organised repository of
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Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) documentation, gathering together documents
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and manuals from around the internet and from users' personal archives.</p>
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<p>We have strived to arrange the content of this site in a logical order
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so that it finally becomes easy to locate the documentation for your device
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or system that you need - be it a PDP-11 computer, or an obscure feature
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of VMS. It should all be there at your fingertips.</p>
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<p>Do you have a document that we don't? Are we missing some vital information
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that you could provide us with? Then register for an account and request
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upload permissions, and you can help us to build the ultimate repository
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of DEC documentation.</p>
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<h3>FAQ</h3>
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<h5>Why do some documents have "Original" and "OCR" versions?</h5>
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<p>When a new document is uploaded it is tested to see if it has had OCR run on it
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already. If it has, we use that OCR data for our indexing. If it hasn't, we automatically
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run OCR on the document. This creates a new version of the document, the OCR version.
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We keep the original alongside the new OCR version and give you the choice of which
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version to download.</p>
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<h5>I have a different copy of a document you already have. Can I upload it?</h5>
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<p>Absolutely. Document revisions with the same main document ID code will be grouped together
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within the document on the website. We actively seek out other versions of documents, or
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even other scans of existing revisions of documents, to try and make the archive as complete
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as possible.</p>
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<h5>What's the Order Number and Revision when I upload?</h5>
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<p>The order number is DEC's internal document reference ID. It is typically of the format
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XX-YYYYY-ZZ-RRR, for example EK-3K370-TR-001. The first three sections are the document
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ID and the last section is the document revision. When you upload please split the document
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ID from the revision and enter them into the two separate boxes. That way the different
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revisions of the same document are properly grouped together. Note that not all documents
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(especially field maintenance print sets) use this format of document IDs, and not all documents
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even have an ID. In this case, just enter what you can in the document ID and leave the
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revision either empty or set to 000 (which indicates it's the original unrevised version).
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If there is no document ID then leave the Order Number blank. A new document ID will be
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generated as a placeholder for internal use.</p>
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<h5>Will you ever host binary files like disk images and software?</h5>
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<p>No. That opens up a whole other kettle of worms, alongside a can of fish as well.</p>
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@endsection
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