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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