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Re: Format of FAQ items
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lugnet.faq
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Mon, 26 Apr 1999 14:23:11 GMT
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jsproat@!antispam!geocities.com
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> Maybe we're thinking of different kids of include mechanisms... I'm not
> thinking of the kind that includes other files for their definitions... I'm
> thinking of the kind that says, "slurp in this other file of data and all of
> its other sub-files of data" -- like the way an MPD works, for example. Can
> you give some examples of usages of the other kind, where you'd just want to
> pull in headers?
Sure -- suppose you have a directory full of FAQ items, some of which have
pretty much the same headers. e.g.
Locations: /x/y/,/x/z/,/x/,/
Content-Language: qw
Translated-From: er
Topic-Level: 1
Instead of maintaining each of these in every file, each file (that wanted
to) could include these headers from another file.
I'm not really committed to this idea; I just hope I'm making sense. :-S
Cheers,
- jsproat
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| (...) Yes & no. 'Yes' in that a master TOC would/could appear. But 'no' in that the master TOC would just be a special case of a general-purpose sub- hierarchy TOC, which just happens to start at the top. I built one of these just for fun a couple (...) (26 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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