Re: FAQ formats (was: Perl HTML conversion script)

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Chris Lewis (clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca)
Sat, 27 May 1995 16:37:41 -0400


On May 27, 11:55, Nancy McGough wrote:
} Subject: Re: FAQ formats (was: Perl HTML conversion script)
} On Sat, 27 May 1995, Pat Berry wrote:
} > Frederic Albrecht <fred@calvacom.fr> writes:

} > > It seems that the University of Ohio conversion creates one HTML page for
} > > each of the sections (everything that starts with the hyphen line and the
} > > "Subject:" line. Is this correct ?

} > Yes. It's not exactly cutting-edge hypertext, but it does let people
} > click on a TOC entry and go straight to that section instead of
} > scrolling through the whole thing.

} Another advantage is that it's fast to download because the Web
} browser only downloads the section(s) the user is interested in
} instead of the whole thing.

I don't think it splits it into multiple files. It builds a TOC where each
button is an offset into the file.

The only stupid thing it does is not recognize existing plaintext TOCs,
and TOCs the TOC as it were ;-)

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