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(...) I personally (huh huh :-) want to read the FAQ (huh-huh huh, he said -- oh never mind) because FAQ's always contain lots of useful bits of information that I didn't know and wouldn't have even thought to ask. I will probably also start (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) I'm not sure that I should post the HTML to the newsgroup; the HTML I generate is around 300 KB. And, it would look pretty ugly, reading an HTML document in a news reader. I've run it through Lynx; the resulting text is around 240 KB. And, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Okay, I have to take some of this back now. I have actually found some FAQs in this newsgroup that were posted before I jumped in and started stirring things up -- the LDraw FAQs. I had ignored them because I had already read the LDraw FAQ on (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Ummm - I would like to have a general idea on the direction of the LDraw FAQ and how it will eventually be formatted to appear like the rest of the ldraw.org site. Is there any set plans on this? (...) Heh - yep :) I have some sorted buckets (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Jacob Sparre Anderson is in charge of the LDraw FAQ, so I won't speak for him. As for the appearance: In theory, the FAQizing scripts would be able to format the HTML in any way you want. ...How handy are you with Perl? :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) :-D We're all Dilberts at heart, methinks. A note about the Mindstorms FAQ -- Kerry Garrison had given me permission on 1999-05-10 to slurp his FAQ, and I have done so. (1) Thus far, I have entered items 1.1-1.6 and 2.1-2.2 (all dated (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) That's what I'm doing. I've merged most of the answers you auto-posted with my answers and converted to the proper format, and I'll be posting the results soon. - Robert Munafo (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) I think I remember us discussing something about the formatting a while ago, but it fizzled. (...) 100% Perl illiterate :( -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 If someone tells you you're worth your weight in gold, fatten up. (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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