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(...) Thanks guys. You realize, this would keep me away from my SW legos... :-P Would the "Xref:" header embedded into the LUGNET nntp messages work for a reference? e.g.: Xref: lugnet.com lugnet.faq:186 in the nntp message translates into: (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Oh, it was just a thought. I kind of like the simplicity of the robots.txt format. You include and exclude things, and each layer modifies previous layers. Kind of also like the way Unix directory permissions work. One example purpose that an (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Eeek -- not 4.0 -- probably not even 3.2 -- way unnecessarily complicated. IMO, no DTD, no nothing except a very restricted subset of HTML is really all that is necessary. The markup is only there at all (instead of pure plain-text) because (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Me too. --Todd (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) And again. I've re-arranged the FAQ items into Todd's directory structure. There are no new items from last update. A lot of the items I just threw into a dir because I couldn't find a good home for them. And a lot of items need answers... :-P (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Not sure yet...only started seriously thinking about and planning for translation a couple months ago. (...) It couldn't hurt, but I wouldn't say that the wording is stabilized enough to be worth investing much time in this early on. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) I know I'm picking on your FAQ item Jacob, I swear it's not personal! :-, You're doing a great job and really helping us out. I think that new FAQ items should be put in a new thread, however -- to make finding them easier and to physically (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Cool -- thanks! :-, (...) Hmmm, what browsers in common use support 4.0? Specifically, do we want to rely on CSS? Do we require everyone to use the latest from Netscape and Microsoft? I suggest we go with something more widespread, such as 3.2 (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Subject: How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ? Content-Language: en Topic-Level: 1 Revision: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 1999-05-06 Location: /faq/ Reference: (URL) The raw file format for an entry in the Lugnet FAQ is a Usenet-like header, (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQ header entries (Was: Progress so far, and a new header)
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(...) Thanks, Jacob. I've posted these in a semi-dedicated thread (1), and added notes on which ones are optional, and which ones may repeat. (...) Darn that Noah Webster. :-P Cheers, - jsproat 1. "Working sketch of FAQ item data format" (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(Originally in another thread. I gave it its own thread to make finding it and building upon it easier. Thanks go to Jacob Sparre Anderseon for tracking these.) These are the headers. All are required unless otherwise specified. None may repeat (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Jeremy: (...) Good idea. Here comes the current edition of the FAQ header entries: Subject: [the question] Content-Language: [ISO 639 language code] Topic-Level: [integer, 0 is beginner/easy/simple] Revision: [author, ISO date] Location: (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Todd: (...) How do we integrate the translation of the FAQ with this? We need to translate (and store) column four and five to translate the FAQ. Should we generate a file similar to [1] based on your table, and then add the translations to that (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Yes. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Very nice. --Todd (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) And again. :-P (...) I did get the unanswered items in there, at least. I didn't touch categorization. Instead, I figured, "what the hell, it needs a tree-based browsing page", so I put that into the perl script make_html.cmd. The index file (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Is there any programing help needed on the back end? I'm not much of a shell programmer, but I know Java and databases. Todd? Greg (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Wicked cool, Jeremy! Off to an awesome start! --Todd (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) It includes a handful more items, plus a quick-n-dirty perl script to convert .faq files to .html, plus the resulting html files. These html files are by no means intended to be the final form, but rather a means to make reading the items (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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