Re: Maintenance for both flat text and HTML?

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David H (dhawk@netcom.com)
Wed, 17 May 1995 18:20:17 -0700 (PDT)

> What solutions have FAQ maintainers found for the problems with
> maintaining both a flat ascii text version of a FAQ (suitable for posting
> and archival) and an HTML version (suitable for residence on an HTTP server)?

I maintain my FAQ's in html and use 'lynx' (a text only viewer
for web stuff) to read in the html and 'print' to a text file.
Since my editor is vi, this is the nerdy way to do it. ;-)

Steps:
1. vi Recovery.html
2. lynx Recovery.html
3. p [for print]
4. Recovery.Text [as filename]
5. q [to quit out of lynx]
6. vi Recovery.Text [for any fine tweaking, which is rare]

The html is ftp://netcom.com/pub/dh/dhawk/Recovery.html
and text is ftp://netcom.com/pub/dh/dhawk/Recovery.Text
which is what I post to *.answers

Speaking of nerdy, I maintain the html in SCCS (source code control)
to keep track of version numbers and changes.

later, david

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David H    dhawk@netcom.com
"No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it." 
                    -- C. Schultz

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