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- From: olson@mydual.uucp (Kirtland H. Olson)
- Subject: Re: Creating an FAQ
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.142602.6456@mydual.uucp>
- Reply-To: olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
- Organization: The Harvard Group, 01451-0667
- References: <1992Aug6.123254.1@hamp.hampshire.edu> <hadgraft.197.713400585@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:26:02 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In article <hadgraft.197.713400585@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au> hadgraft@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft, Civil staff, ext 4983) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug6.123254.1@hamp.hampshire.edu> dhirmes@hamp.hampshire.edu writes:
- >
- >>I might be willing to help organize/put together an FAQ for this newgroup.
- >>Would would people like to see in it, i.e.:
- >> Bibliography
- >> FTP sites for various platforms
- >> Basic definitions/general concepts ?
- >
- >ANd it would be nice to make it available as a hypertext! Now we need some
- >type of generic format that can be easily translated into the multitude of
- >formats available on many platforms.
-
- Making the FAQ "hypertextable" sounds great; distributing it as
- hypertext sounds like it would keep many people from accessing it.
-
- Many people run unsupported machines with old OS's and small hard drives so
- they cannot practically update their software without substantial effort.
- At this site, for example, the unix machines available are:
-
- DUAL 83/80, UNIX PC (3b1), and possibly an XT running Venix (sys III).
-
-
- Only the 3b1 has news compiled for it, the DUAL might get news if I get
- time to work on it. I have the largest hard disk I could get on the
- 3b1, but that's only 50 meg because of space and cash constraints. Any
- more and I have to do hardware mods.
-
- Also, ftp and telnet capabilities are not always available. That means
- some kinds of hypertexts and all ftp distributions are just unavailable.
-
- Let's try to keep these people included in the discussions about
- hypertext, especially the FAQ. That probably means having an ASCII
- equivalent of a hypertext FAQ, or breaking the FAQ into many ASCII files
- that can be put into a local hypertext engine (not necessarily on the
- same machine or even the same OS).
-
- BTW, if anyone has information about universal formats, software to
- translate among formats, or equivalent info on graphics, I would like to
- hear about them and include them in my list of hypertext-related stuff.
-
-
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- Kirtland H. Olson olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
-