Re: TI-H: We need a FAQ!


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Re: TI-H: We need a FAQ!



Christopher Kalos wrote:
> 
> uhhhh, you might want to lay off of the ASCII art.  I know it looks nice, but on a windows system, it's more than an annoyance, it's illegible.
> 
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> From:   Richard Piotter[SMTP:richfiles@hotmail.com]
> Sent:   Tuesday, October 14, 1997 9:02 PM
> To:     ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
> Subject:        Re: TI-H: We need a FAQ!
> 
> >I think Richard said he would take the sections we write and post them
> >to a FAQ page. Ask him.
> >
> 
> Yep! I did say that and I'll hold to it.
> 
> How does this format look...
> 
>  ___________________________________
> |                                   |
> |     The TI-Hardware List FAQ      |
> |___________________________________|
> |          |^|                    |^|
> | Item 1   |-| FAQ information    |-|
> | Item 2   |-| for each item.     | |
> | --Item 3 | |                    |_|
> | --Item 4 | |                    |-|
> | Item 5   | |                    | |
> | --Item 6 | |                    | |
> | Item 7   |_|                    |_|
> |__________|v|____________________|v|
> 
> Submissions of actual FAQs and formats would be welcome. I will work on
> it Saturdays or Sundays, since I work week days. I could Get a GeoCities
> account and set up the e-mail address as a hotmail account or the list
> if it's possible. I would let the password for the FAQ out on the list
> so if you have the skills, you can add info yourself. If the e-mail
> address for the geocities account were a separate hotmail account, then
> that password would be released too. The e-mail account is only to get
> the password, or if someone is willing to relay the pasword to the list,
> no email account would be required. The only purpose is to get the
> password and geocities info. If I assemble it, I will give instructions
> for updating it, because I can get it started, but I may not be able to
> keep updating it forever, so the responsibility may fall on others
> someday. I will add instructions for updating it, so it will be
> updatable by the people posting the FAQ.
> 
> I may just get it started and have the instructions so you can add the
> rest of the parts yourselves, but I can make a very nice looking format.
> 
> We need a standardized file naming system, so we don't get confused
> naming things, so if we have Topics and Items, the actual file name for
> the Piece of the FAQ should be something like 1_1 or 1_2 or 4_3 (I
> don't think they allow period (.)). This will make the naming simple.
> The format for the topic list would be:
> 
> <A HREF="1_1" target=MainFrame>1.1 Purpose of this FAQ<A>
> 
> I'm not certain, but you can add your FAQs to the big FAQ by opening the
> List file and just coping and pasting and changing the file name and the
> item name.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> Richard Piotter
> 
> e-mail: richfiles@hotmail.com
> 
> home page: <A
> HREF="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5081/Richfiles.html">The
> Richfiles</A>
> 
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Your format is absolutely garbled on my machine, you didn't use the Tab
key did you? (you have to)


-- 
          Rene Kragh Pedersen
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