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Subject: 
Re: Munafo's FAQ submissions (was Re: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
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lugnet.faq
Date: 
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:30:06 GMT
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JSPROAT@IOnospam.COM
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Robert Munafo wrote:
In lugnet.faq, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
Do you intend to include this FAQ into the grand LUGNET FAQ?  (1)  If so,
they'd need to be put into the proper format.  You could do it if you want, or
I can get to it when I get more time.
However, I want to point out that text-only ASCII is the world standard format
for FAQ files and I'm reluctant to spend a lot of time and effort turning it
into some elaborate nonstandard format, particularly if it will make the result
impossible to convert back to plain ASCII.

The format won't make it impossible to convert back to plain ASCII.  It
will, however, make it possible to incorporate into a larger, searchable,
multimedia FAQ.

The main rationale behind the FAQ format is to have a common source base
from which different publishing formats can be acheived.  For the purposes
of LUGNET, these publishing formats include HTML and plain text.

Thanks for your effort!

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com>
http://www.io.com/~jsproat
Darth Maul Lives



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  Re: Munafo's FAQ submissions (was Re: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
 
(...) (A super-restricted subset of HTML, that is.) --Todd (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)

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  Munafo's FAQ submissions (was Re: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
 
(...) I'll look around and try to find out what the "proper" format is. Maybe you could reply with a pointer to the LUGNET message I need to read. However, I want to point out that text-only ASCII is the world standard format for FAQ files and I'm (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)

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