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(...) Nope! That's the beauty of not being automated yet! :-, If I see a new article in this ng (or anywhere else in LUGNET, for tha tmatter) that's probably appropriate for the FAQ, I snag a copy of it and store it in my "LUGNET FAQ -- TODO" (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) That sounds good. I tend to update it from time to time; e.g. most recently adding all of Robert Munafo's entries and giving them filenames, fixing some headers, etc. For more than one submission, would you prefer e-mail or does LUGNET's FTP (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Wouldn't it be cool if there were something other than HTML that was actually readable as plaintext but which also looked great when converted to HTML? --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Good idea. The current 200+ messages aren't any fun to read. (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) What happens if I post random extremely unhelpful (counter-helpful, even) but properly-formatted messages to the newsgroup? Will I break things? :) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) indexer to filter out HTML tags. --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
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(...) I think it doesn't hurt to allow <BLOCKQUOTE> -- but I'm having trouble imagning places where it would be useful. Heh heh, maybe in acutal block quotes? :-) "Four score an seven years ago . . . --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) If you're having trouble uploading it somewhere to distribute it, you could e-mail it to me and I could make it available for anonymous-ftp. --Todd (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) That's OK -- there doesn't necessarily have to be a strong correlation between the two, right? You've got an opinion and if it's logical (and not a drive-by joke), then it's welcome here no matter what you have or haven't contributed. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Coolness. Okay. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Right, basically. One thing we were talking about a while back was using 'lynx --dump' to convert the source data (which includes minimal HTML markup) into ASCII for spitting out into the ng. (...) For right now, yes, but ultimately this group (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Robert, I haven't looked closely yet at the rest of your post, but the above paragraph is only correct if it's in the future. :) That is, there's no program yet that goes and collects things from the group. It might not actually even end up (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) No, it wouldn't be public domain. It would still be Gary's. The words "public domain" mean "not copyrighted." If Gary chooses to post it here, then (by the LUGNET Terms of Use) he is granting a non-exclusive license to use, adapt, republish, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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This update just adds the values for the range of the temperature sensor Subject: 2.5 Are there other sensors available? Content-Language: en Topic-Level: 0 Revision: Robert Munafo, 1999-07-14 Location: /robotics/rcx/ Comment: Topic-level is (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) But isn't this a contribution? :-, (...) Well, we are and we aren't using standardized formats. BTW, I've never heard about Docbook; I'd like to hear more. The FAQ format was chosen as a compromise between using a format many people are (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | [MindStorms FAQ 3.7 Can I use C++?]
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Subject: 3.7 Can I use C++? Content-Language: en Topic-Level: 0 Revision: Robert Munafo, 1999-07-14 Location: /robotics/rcx/ Comment: Topic-level is inaccurate pending a reference for topic levels <p>The C++ language is available if you program the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) I have written a tool for my own uses which formats FAQ files on the hard disk. It does not, however, index, validate, searchify, or otherwise process the files for LUGNET consumption -- that'll be implemented by Todd or person(s) commissioned (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Subject: 3.7 Can I use C++? Content-Language: en Topic-Level: 0 Revision: Robert Munafo, 1999-07-14 Location: /robotics/rcx/ Comment: Topic-level is inaccurate pending a reference for topic levels <p>The C++ language is available if you program the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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This might not be my place to suggest, as I have not yet contributed anything, but is there some particular reason why we are custom designing out own thing, instead of using a standardized format which already has conversion tools, like Docbook? (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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Robert Munafo <munafo@gcctech.com> wrote: [snip] (...) [snip, snip; goodbye context] So, there will be but does not currently exist a tool which extracts messages from this newsgroup, checks for actual properly-formatted ones, checks revision, and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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