Re: Utrecht archive announcement and proposal

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Martin Trautmann (traut@iht0.iht.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de)
Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:44:37 +0100

> Why do you guys think that my proposal is not as flexible as Henk's?
> It seems to me that they are the same in terms of flexibility, i.e.:
>
> URL: url "meaningful text"
>
> and
>
> meaningful text: url
>
> have the same content and flexibility. I can easily convert from one
> to the other.
>
> But, if you allow different text to be used instead of the leading
> "URL:" then I agree that Henk's proposal is more flexible and I do
> like this flexibility. What do you all think of the following for
> auxiliary headers:
>
> Meaningful_Auxiliary_Header: <URL:url> "meaningful link name"

For my basic understanding it is more simple to check on the header line
"URL" what to do instead of deciding on every new and unknown header line
whether it may be ignored or contains some useful information. That's why I
like the URL: approach better.

I prefer to include the URL within <,> since this may work as well when a
line gets wrapped. Working on a platform where blanks may occur frequently
within file names (Mac), that's another plus for including <> and/or using
quotation marks around the description. I see enough flexibility to use

URL: ftp://site.com/path/file my description
URL: <ftp://site.com/path/file name> my description
URL: ftp://site.com/path/file name "my description"
URL: <URL:ftp://site.com/path/file name> my description

> * We would come up with a list of standard URL auxiliary headers for
> pointers to URLs. These standards would be useful in terms of
> usability (e.g., users would always know that Official_FAQ_Location
> is where the latest and greates version of the FAQ is) and also
> in terms of FAQ automation tools (e.g., my FAQ launchers).

I can't imagine a list of standard URL auxiliary headers. What should I use for
my set of FAQs:
- plain text on FAQ site
- html text on FAQ site
- plain text on local site
- html text on local site
- formatted text on local site
- compressed documents
- helpers / examples / extensions / tools

Examples: My FAQs on a database are kept within a template of this database.
URL:
<http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/databases/filemaker-pro/
faq/faq.html>
"FAQ site (monthly updated)"
URL: <ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de//pub/database/filemaker-pro/[FAQ] FileMaker
Pro>
"plain text on home site (very recent)"
URL: <ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de//pub/database/filemaker-pro/faq.fm.sit.hqx>
"FAQs as template for FileMaker Pro (compressed, most recent)"

Regards
Martin

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