Is there an SGML FAQ list?

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3 total messages Started by Len Moss Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:25

#163

Author: Len Moss
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:25

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Hi.  I'm new to this group and, in an effort to avoid embarrassing
myself, I'd like to ask just one Frequently Asked Question:

  Is there an SGML FAQ list, and if so, how can I retrieve it?

(Hmmm...maybe that was really two questions ;-)

Thanks in advance.

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Leonard J. Moss <ljm@slac.stanford.edu>   | My views don't necessarily
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Stanford, CA   94309                      | Stanford or the DOE

Re: Is there an SGML FAQ list?

#169

Author: Erik Naggum
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:50

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Michael Popham of Exeter and I are working on an FAQ.  I'm swamped with
work, though.

Although not exactly serving the same purpose, we do have an archive you
can reach with WAIS and FTP and gopher.

WAIS:
	comp.text.sgml.src, SGML.src, or SIGhyper.src.

FTP:
	host: ftp.ifi.uio.no
	directories: /pub/SGML, /pub/SIGhyper
	The archive is in /pub/SGML/comp.text.sgml/by.date and by.msgid.
	You can retrieve the entire archive with the file name
	/pub/SGML/comp.text.sgml/by.date.tar or ...tar.Z.  14-character
	file names are used in by.date, so SVR4 file systems can handle
	them.  Note: these files are created on the fly, so you won't
	find them if you look for them first.

gopher
	host: gopher.ifi.uio.no
	port: 70
	Selection 6, then 3 gets you to the archive, while selections 1
	and 2 eventually will get you to the other directories, but they
	don't work right now.  FTP must be used at present.  You can
	retrieve articles by date, by message-id and search for
	keywords.

Articles retrieved will have a file name consiting of the 14-digit ISO
8601 date and time specification as taken from the Date header of the
article.  You can follow backward references by using the message-id.
Sometime soon, forward references will also be provided, and I'll try to
get around to put in proper references headers for articles which miss
them.  (Please, please, retain the subject line (with leading "Re:") and
include a References header when you follow up.  People can usually find
out what you're replying to when they remember the article in question,
but try and go back into the archive, and find a related article four
months later.  Most news software does this right, so if you reply by
mail, please do us all the favor of adhering to these simple rules, as
the archive is accessed in many more ways than linearly in time.)

I hope this helps until we can get the FAQ out.  Actually, the most
frequently asked question seems to be "where is the FAQ", since very
little ground has been covered twice, so it's more like an intro to the
group than an FAQ.

Indexes to the archive are planned, too.

Best regards,
</Erik>
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<erik@naggum.no>        |  ISO 10646 UCS      |      Memento, terrigena.
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Re: Is there an SGML FAQ list?

#170

Author: Tony Bray
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 04:39

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In article <92241.152557LJM@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> LJM@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Len Moss) writes:
>Hi.  I'm new to this group
>  Is there an SGML FAQ list, and if so, how can I retrieve it?
>Thanks in advance.

Please could you also let me know. I have a further problem in that I
can not FTP from this site.
Would someone be kind enough to EMail me the file.

Tony Bray
Senior Technical Writer
tonyb@pec.co.nz
PEC (NZ) Ltd, P.O.Box 308, Marton, New Zealand

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