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@@ -14,12 +14,36 @@ compiled and visible.  However I have a few issues/problems:-
 these are HTML::Template and HTML::Scrubber (at least I think it was these two, it's a bit messy 
 to go back and find out).
 
+> You're right, HTML::Template is required. HTML::Scrubber is only required
+> in the default configuration, and is optional if the htmlscrubber plugin
+> is disabled. --[[Joey]]
+
 * I don't seem to have got an ikiwiki man page created.
 
+> It should be installed in /usr/share/man, or a similar directory
+> depending on how your perl is set up and how you did the install.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
 * Running "ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup" doesn't do anything.  I have edited ikiwiki.setup to
 my local settings.  There are no errors but neither does anything get compiled.  An ikiwiki
 command to explicitly do the compile works fine.  Am I misunderstanding something here?
 
+> Further tests indicate that ikiwiki isn't seeing changed files so doesn't always rebuild.
+> How does ikiwiki decide when to rebuild?  I tried a full command line like "ikiwiki --verbose ikiwiki ~/public_html/ikiwiki --url=http://www.isbd.ltd.uk/~chris/ikiwiki/" and that doesn't do anything
+either though it was the command line I originally used to compile.  After a long interval I 'touch'ed 
+the files and then it *did* compile but 'touch'ing the files after a few minutes only doesn't seem to force a recompile.  I'm even more confused!
+
+> ikiwiki only compiles files whose modification times have changed. It
+> should see any change made as close as a second after the last compile.
+> When run with --setup, ikiwiki always rebuilds every file in the wiki. If
+> --setup is not working, you must have it pointed at the wrong path or
+> something; you can pass -v to see what it's doing. I don't know why it
+> would not see recently changed files; you could try stracing it.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+> OK, thanks, I don't quite know what was happening before but it seems to be working right now.
+> --[[Chris]]
+
 * I wish there was a mailing list, much easier for this sort of stuff than this, apart from
 anything else I get to use a decent editor.
 
@@ -37,6 +61,10 @@ I'm currently using TWiki and have a fair number of pages in that format, does
 anyone have any bright ideas for translating?  I can knock up awk scripts fairly
 easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl).
 
+> Let us know if you come up with something to transition from the other
+> format. Another option would be writing a ikiwiki plugin to support the
+> TWiki format. --[[Joey]]
+
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