God helps those who help themselves.
1) Larry pointed out txt2html.pl here recently.
2) I'm working on my own HTMLifier. (I want one page per FAQ entry, not the
whole FAQ in a single page.) I'll post it here when I'm done in case
anyone's interested.
> More importantly, what are we as a group going to do about the fact that
> half the Web universe has pointers to various FAQs at OSU? We can't even
> replace those copies with pointers to newer versions, if the updating
> daemon has died :-(.
When we (the SGI FAQ group) are ready to go with our version of our FAQs, I'm
going to try really, really hard to get someone to replace the OSU and
Smartpages versions with pointers to ours. No, that's not a general solution,
but I'll pass on what I find.
Will we always need the OSU/Utrecht/etc. ueberarchives?
- They get the FAQ on the WWW, but this is becoming less important as the
ability to run a WWW server becomes more common.
- They do the formatting, but there's at least one do-it-yourself tool that
may already make some people happy, and more are sure to follow. I'd rather
see a good redistributable formatting tool than a new FAQ archive site.
- They collect all FAQs into a single list, but if one wants a question
answered one doesn't care if the answer is in an FAQ as such or just on any
old WWW page. Probably not one of the non-computer-heads around me knows
about the OSU etc. archives, but they all know how to hit the search button
in Netscape, and it gets results.
I don't want to put down Tom Fine, Henk, etc.'s work, just raise some
questions.
Cheers,
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