>I started writing such a tool, and have some lines of C code, but
>really PERL is the way to go for this kind of thing.
Oh boy, a language war! The language chosen should probably run on as many
machines as possible. Perl runs on a number of Unix platforms, but isn't
so hot on MS-DOS unless you have a fairly powerful machine. I don't know
whether it runs on Amigas or VMS or any of the other machines faq-writers
and readers are likely to use. Perhaps C or The Language That WOuld Not
Die, FORTRAN, would be the best choice. Those languages run on just about
everything. Of course, you still have the ANSI vs. K&R C problem. Yet
another question to which there's no simple answer.
>There is just absolutely no doubt that a UFF would be worth its weight
>in gold, if it could be achieved. It would be a tremendous boost to the
>popularity of FAQs that would rival that of Gopher explosion in use.
>What are `your needs'? People want hypertextable information,
>searchable, indexable, organized, uniform, etc. Anyone who has not used
>Xmosaic or called up T.Fine's Ohio collection of FAQs will just have no
>idea what people are talking about when they say `hypertext format'. I
>mean, when you can click on an FTP site reference and you are *there*,
>or you click on an email address and get a *resume*, or you click on
>another reference and boom you are *telnetting* to the site.
Could you post instructions on how to run a demo? Like many people, I
don't have easy access to an X terminal, so it will have to work on a
VT100.
>I would be interested in a mailing list dedicated exclusively to the
>project of getting FAQs into a commercial venue, where they can
>generate revenue, too.
I think you underestimate the difficulty of commercial writing.
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Jack Hamilton POB 281107 SF CA 94128 USA
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