FAQ formats (was: Perl HTML conversion script)

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Pat Berry (pat@berry.Cary.NC.US)
Fri, 26 May 95 17:55:07 EDT


Frederic Albrecht <fred@calvacom.fr> writes:

> > 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
>
> I did read this, I even considered using if, but I have foud very few
> FAQs actually using the format and I didn't find it very easy to parse
> without a browsing tool. So in the end I dropped it in favour of a
> regular text format.

I use it for my Red Dwarf FAQ so that Tom Fine's server at Ohio State
can automatically convert it to HTML. Works like a charm. All I have
to do is give the URL to anyone who asks.

> Does anyone here use digest ? (should I be using it ?)

If you're interested providing both ASCII and HTML versions of the FAQ,
and you're as lazy as I am, you'll consider it. :)



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