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Forever?
No, actually, because my Object-Fax and GammaLink FAQ's also are used in my work
I have to have several formats:

a. Paper. They are shipped with every Object-Fax or GammaFax system. Reduces
support costs radically.

b. Lotus Notes. We have a Technical Notes database that we replicate to our
retailers. It has to be there along with patches and fixes.

c. Text-file. For Usenet and for our BBS.)

(d. WWW. We don't have a WWW server, but we will get one, and then I would of
course like to have the FAQ's there.

Today I have a, b & c. I'm going to look at d when we get a WWW-server (Really
Soon Now). Im doing this by maintaining the FAQ i Word for Windows. Conversion
to Notes is done by Cut-and-Paste. Conversion to paper is done by Laser printer
and copier. Conversion to text is done by printing the document to a file with
the 'generic/tty' printer driver and then opening and saving the file in emacs.
(That step converts all LF's and CR's to LF/CR combinations.)

I'm not completely sure how to make a HTML file out of this word document, but
I'll figure something out.

What I mean, is that some of us must have several parallell formats forever.

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