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- From: ethanb@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu (Ethan Bradford)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: Here's how to get the FAQ
- Message-ID: <ETHANB.92Nov5155636@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 23:56:36 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ptolemy.ETHANB.92Nov5155636
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- In-Reply-To: sysjmm@idun.albany.edu's message of 5 Nov 92 18:55:14 GMT
- To: sysjmm@idun.albany.edu (jayen malde)
-
- From the FAQ:
-
- 22: Where can I get the latest version of this document (the FAQ list)?
-
- The GNU Emacs FAQ is available in several ways:
-
- * Via USENET. If you can read news, the FAQ should be available in your
- news spool, in both the gnu.emacs.help and comp.emacs newsgroups. Every
- news reader of which I know will allow you to read any news article that
- is still in the news spool, even if you have read the article before.
- You may need to read the instructions for your news reader to discover
- how to do this. In `rn', this command will do this for you at the
- article selection level:
-
- ?GNU Emacs FAQ?rc:m
-
- In GNUS, you should type "C-u G" from the *Subject* buffer or "C-u SPC"
- from the *Newsgroup* buffer to view all articles in a newsgroup.
-
- The FAQ articles' message IDs are:
-
- <GNU-Emacs-FAQ-0.1992.09.22.011020@bigbird.bu.edu> !
- <GNU-Emacs-FAQ-1.1992.09.22.011020@bigbird.bu.edu> !
- <GNU-Emacs-FAQ-2.1992.09.22.011020@bigbird.bu.edu> !
- <GNU-Emacs-FAQ-3.1992.09.22.011020@bigbird.bu.edu> !
- <GNU-Emacs-FAQ-4.1992.09.22.011020@bigbird.bu.edu> !
- <GNU-Emacs-FAQ-5.1992.09.22.011020@bigbird.bu.edu> !
-
- If you are viewing this in the GNUS *Article* buffer, you can move point
- within one of the above message IDs and type "r" to fetch the referenced
- article. Type "o" in the *Article* buffer to restore the previous
- contents. If this text is not in the GNUS *Article* buffer, use M-r
- from the *Subject* buffer instead.
-
- If the FAQ articles have expired and been deleted from your news spool,
- it might (or might not) do some good to complain to your news
- administrator, because the most recent FAQ should not expire before
- November 21, 1992. !
-
- * Via anonymous FTP. You can fetch the FAQ articles via anonymous FTP
-
- /rtfm.mit.edu:pub/usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/ part* !
-
- * Via e-mail. You can send the following magical incantation in the body
- of a message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu:
-
- send usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/part0
- send usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/part1
- send usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/part2
- send usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/part3
- send usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/part4
- send usenet/news.answers/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/part5
-
- * Via WAIS. The GNU Emacs FAQ is available via WAIS indexed on a
- per-question basis from the `faq' database on bigbird.bu.edu on the
- non-standard IP port number of 2210. This is probably the best way to
- find out if there is something in the FAQ related to your question. I
- use this myself to answer questions I see posted on gnu.emacs.help.
-
- The articles of the GNU Emacs FAQ are also available from the `usenet'
- database on rtfm.mit.edu (on the standard IP port: 210), along with a
- lot of other FAQ articles. However, these are all indexed at the whole
- article level instead of at the question level. This is a better place
- to look if you want to fetch the entire FAQ.
-
- * In the GNU Emacs distribution. Since GNU Emacs 18.56, the latest
- available version of the FAQ at the time of release has been part of the
- GNU Emacs distribution as file etc/FAQ. 18.58 is the latest version,
- and it was released in February 1992.
-
- * There is an old version of the FAQ list available for FTP in the GNU +
- archives at MIT: +
- +
- /prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/GNUinfo/FAQ.emacs +
- +
- * As the very last resort, you can e-mail a request to +
- gnu-emacs-faq-maintainers@bigbird.bu.edu. Don't do this unless you have
- made a serious effort to obtain the FAQ list via one of the methods
- listed above.
-
-