Although I've only used their web service and read their ads for
their CD-ROM service, it may be useful to take a look at the way
www.windows95.com runs. Basically, they've got a rather large index of
Win95 programs in all sorts of categories on their web pages. They
don't seem to store many (or even any) apps on their web pages, but
just provide links to whetever the authors designated.
For the CD version, they still have the html files, but most files
are downloaded to that CD. If the author didn't give permission to put
it on the CD, then there's just the link, requiring an active internet
connection to grab the file.
A similar type of setup might be possible for a FAQ-CD: a HTML
table of contents/etc with FAQs that are on the disk that had
permission to do so, and links to rtfm for those that permission
wasn't gotten.
I'd be happy with my Apple II FAQs being referenced in multiple
ways: raw ascii on disk, html formatted on disk, and link to my
'official' web pages for the FAQ. Even the text versions note where to
get the latest versions from at the top, so people can read offline
and then grab any updates when they want.
This doesn't necessarily preclude text versions of a table of
contents/ index on the disk, but with html browsers out for pretty
much any system you can hook a CD-ROM to, it'd go a long way towards
usability, etc.
Nathan Mates
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