Re: Perl HTML conversion script

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Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca)
Wed, 24 May 1995 21:38:25 -0400

On May 25, 2:56, Frederic Albrecht wrote:
} Subject: Re: Perl HTML conversion script
} On Wed, 24 May 1995, Mike Sierra wrote:
}
} > Thanks for the script, but I'd actually like to go the other direction.
} > When I take over the comp.text.frame faq in a few weeks, I'd like to
} > maintain it in HTML, from which I'll spawn off an ASCII version for people
} > to download. I have a few questions, though, about Emacs outline format:
} >
} > * Is it pretty much the going standard for ASCII faq files?

} Not at all, The script converts from it into a (much more readable)
} standard text format. Apart from the digest format (see RFC 1630)

RFC 1153. RFC 1630 describes URL/URI, _not_ digest format.

} I don't believe there's much of a standard format out there.

I think you might want to consult:

Subject: FAQs: A Suggested Minimal Digest Format

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/faqs/minimal-digest-format

} > * Do people really use it, and are any other programs readily able to read
} > this format?
}
} Not that I know of, I use it because it makes it easy to move whole
} sections around and because it can sort sections alphabetically.

Most newsreaders "do" RFC1153, or something conformant with the subset
described in the FAQ.

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