FAQ HTML, hints and remarks
Source
The creators of Meeting Pearls are usualy able to communicate, discuss and
share software via net from universities and colleges. Connecting over
Internet means fast access to informations and to large pool of them.
These documents are collected from so called newsgroups - international
boards of mailing and discussion. To prevent the groups from often asked
questions friendly poeple generated lists of these questions and their
answers - the FAQ, which are useful not only for newbies. FAQ contain
different topics such contact offers or technical hints and certainly answers
to hard- and software.
Organisation
I'm not a friend of unsorted long directory lists. More than 150 entries in
one drawer are too much! That's why the FAQ were collected by their main term
and moved into an own subdirectory. Because after this there were still about
200 files and dirs, don't try to open icon from Workbench if you have less
than 1MB chip memory!
To gave you an orientation, I generated two files - a list of topics (same as
a list of directories and files below FAQ/FAQ/) and a list of all files.
All documents were striped from '0C'x into an Unix or Amiga format without
changing date.
technical data:
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738 files in
213 topics are
about 27 MByte data
Reading text
To read FAQ from guide or Mosaic, you have to prepare tooltype GUIDE or HTML
for the special Meeting Pearls MetaTool utility, i.e. the correct absolut
path entry in ENV:METACONFIG and a working entry in this preferences file for
GUIDE/HTML.
Certainly you also can read documents from Shell or Workbench, but don't
forget the 200 files and dirs there.
Hints
We try to be actual with our FAQ collection. But it is also possible, because
of seldom changing some articles are the same like published before. To get a
status of the document look for 'last modified' or extract the file date.
To support a search for a special question, most FAQ follows a standard in
numbering. For instance type '*** 1.4' for getting paragraph number 1.4.
If you use a viewer wich support ARexx you can install a little package for
asynchon reading. Put 'start_most' in S: (S flag must be set) and
'start_most' in REXX: and adapt them to your reader/textviewer. Change your
Metatool entry for TEXT to 'start_most' or execute it immediately. The ARexx
script also works stand alone (I use it for a long time from SID2).
Archiv: bonus/
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start_most
start_most.rexx
Bugs and Errors
It takes me a lot of time and was really difficult to sort, classificate and
comment these FAQ. Some name changing with new FAQ made my automagic scripts
trouble. So maybe there were some mistaken descriptions, orthografical
mistakes and false classification. So sorry about this! But the guide works
fine 'cause of automatical and humanoid testers ;-).
Author and thanks
Khamsonh Marcel 'ninji' Khounlivong
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Oststraße 60
04317 Leipzig
Germany
E-Mail: okk@rz.uni-jena.de
I have to thank:
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Markus 'ill' Illenseer, for sending FAQ, critical
remarks and correcting translations
André 'Undo' and Torsten 'WSI' Wolf, for lending
CD-ROM and supporting with SQ3270S