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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 17:04:33 +0100
From: Marc Lehmann <pcg AT goof DOT com>
To: Dustin Puryear <dpuryear AT usa DOT net>
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On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 11:27:33PM -0600, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Dec 1998, you wrote:
> >As some of you might/might not know, the FAQ is basically orphaned. I keep
> >answering the same questions differently each time, but have no time to
> >update the faq accordingly.
> 
> Well, after all the help I've received from this list I would be more than
> happy to return the favor and maintain the FAQ. Any other takers?

Yes, four other people, I should have asked for help much earlier ;)

> P.S. If nobody else jumps up I'll grab the FAQ in a day or two and start

Please, to all (future) faq-maintainers, I've put the current sources for the faq
into

ftp.goof.com:/pub/pcg/test/faq.tar.gz

To re-iterate, the main file is named faq/faq, which "I:ncludes" the other parts. There
are a number of directives used in it:

T:title of a section
I:include_a_file

Q:a question
A:the answer

To refer to another question, just give it a tag:

Q:#(a_tag)a question

which adds <A NAME=xxx> to that question.

There are a number of "funny" macros (like _link(text,url) or _b(bold)) that
you can safely ignore, i.e. instead of trying to explain them you can just
use plain HTML.

Even if there can't be five faq maintainers, every new or revised question
helps, and I'll be happy to give credit to everybody who is contributing.

For discussions (who deas what) feel free to use the existing mailinglist.

Thanks for any help ;)


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