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- From: lindner@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Paul Lindner)
- Subject: Re: Gopherising FAQ files
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- References: <1993Jan21.174815.17047@ohm.york.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.183335.28005@ohm.york.ac.uk> <7475@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:40:14 GMT
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- In <7475@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> zlsiimw@info.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan25.183335.28005@ohm.york.ac.uk>, nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel
- >Metheringham) writes:
- ><stuff deleted>
- >|> So of the types already handled by WAIS, it would seem best to munge
- >|> FAQs into a dash separated format, where each section is separated
- >|> by a line of dashes. The first line following the dashes is the
- >|> section identifier. This leaves the FAQ still readable, but able to
- >|> be directly indexed by WAIS. A script can be written to modify most
- >|> FAQ sets into this format quite easily.
- ><stuff deleted>
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- >My experience of using the -t dash option to waisindex stuff hasn't been
- >very good; it works but when gopher displays the items returned it seems
- >to display a significant amount of each section as the title rather than
- >just the first line following the row of dashes. I get much nicer results
- >if I convert the dashes to a blank line and use -t para. Anybody else had
- >this experience or is it just me?
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- The headline fcn for -t dash ignores newlines.. Thus you get the
- maximum WAIS headline (100 chars?)
-
- This is good for some applications and lousy for others..
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