Right now, I scan news.answers and everything found there gets put
into my hypertext area. The documents are stored using the same
structure found in the archive-name sub-header line.
All documents are scanned for various text that resembles a reference
to something I can create a link to. This includes Man pages, RFCs,
WWW documents, gopher documents, ftp references, other FAQs, and
maybe a couple of other things I can't think of off hand.
Most documents are stored as plain text, with embedded links I just
described. Two types of documents are further processed. Digest
format documents, and the format I had originally proposed when I started
this project. Currently I recommend the digest format, because it
is widely used, and there are other good reasons outside of HTML to
use it. This further processing amounts to subdividing the document
into sub documents.
I won't describe these formats - someone else mailed a copy of one of my
old postings to this list, and it is probably in the ballpark of current.
Also I just posted copies to the discussion going on in a long list of
newsgroups including comp.infosystems.www.
The conversion works ok. It's not very clean. There's no way to merge
multiple postings into a single document. The wide variability in what
people think a digest format is makes the job much harder.
I'll try to go through some of the earlier messages and answer questions.
tom
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