Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers)
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Frequently asked questions are used to prevent newsgroups, IRC and
mailing lists from low level questions andto reduce traffic. Reading FAQ could
help beginners finding an answer to a general problem. So the texts of FAQ
became a database of knowledge.
Because of difficult space problems on this CD only the FAQ from comp.answers, soc.answers, and sci.answers (size about 34 MB) are
included. The FAQ from rec.answers (special topics: animals, cars, sports) maybe
you'll find on next CD.
Reasons
Private access to Internet makes it possible to get more informations from
different databases, for instance scientific publications. To prevent wild
traffic and reduce paying more cash than necessary for using your modem, you
should doubth about using local stuff. That's why this FAQ were included on CD
;-). Deadline was 07th october 1995, 9 a.am., GET+1:00.
Organisation
The documents stored in FAQ/ are sorted on this CD by their posting into
special newsgroups. So, it could be possible you'll find a FAQ both in one and
in another newsgroup.
I'm still not a friend of unsorted long directory lists. More than 150 entries
in one drawer are too much! That's why the FAQ were renamed using the keyword
Archive-name: and moved into subdirectories. The date of these files are
simular to posting date into newsgroups.
Because of after this there were still a lot of files and dirs, don't try to
open icon from Workbench having less than 1MB chip memory! To search for a
special file use FAQ-full.list
Reading texts
To read FAQ from guide or Mosaic, you have to prepare tooltype GUIDE or HTML for
the special Meeting Pearls MetaTool utility, i.e. the correct absolut path entry
in ENV:METACONFIG and a working entry in the preferences file for GUIDE or
HTML.
Certainly you also can read documents from Shell or Workbench, but don't forget
the numbers of files and dirs there.
Hints
We try to be actual with our FAQ collection. But it is also possible, because of
seldom changing some articles are the same like published before. To get a
status of the document look for 'last modified' or extract the file date.
To support a search for a special question, most FAQ follows a standard in
numbering. For instance type '*** 1.4' for getting paragraph number 1.4.
Bugs and Errors
It takes me a lot of time and was really difficult to download, sort and
classificate these FAQ. An example: every day I have to transport up to 1.2
MByte and have to start a procedure over six ours to select, delete double and
create hypertexts (using a A500 without turbo boards ;-). So maybe there could
be some mistakes. Sorry about this!
If you are using (A)Rexx (you don't know that the origin of Rexx cames from PC,
do you ?), you'll find my scripts in bonus/. Information only, the don't
work on this CD :-).
Author
Khamsonh Marcel 'ninji' Khounlivong
- Oststraße 60
- 04317 Leipzig
- Deutschland
- E-Mail: okk@rz.uni-jena.de
Khamsonh Marcel 'ninji' Khounlivong, Oktober 1995