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- From: zlsiimw@info.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
- Subject: Re: Gopherising FAQ files
- Message-ID: <7475@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 09:11:47 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.174815.17047@ohm.york.ac.uk> <1993Jan25.183335.28005@ohm.york.ac.uk>
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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>
-
- 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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