From LJM@SLACVM.BITNET Tue Dec 1 07:34:00 1992 Received: from vm.uni-c.dk by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA23702 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Wed, 2 Dec 1992 00:44:45 +0100 Message-Id: <199212012344.AA23702@dkuug.dk> Received: from vm.uni-c.dk by vm.uni-c.dk (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5715; Wed, 02 Dec 92 00:46:07 DNT Received: from SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU by vm.uni-c.dk (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 6133; Wed, 02 Dec 92 00:46:06 DNT Received: by SLACVM (Mailer R2.08 R208004) id 4239; Tue, 01 Dec 92 15:44:06 PST Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1992 15:34 -0800 (PST) From: "Len Moss" To: "SC22/WG5 Mailing List" Subject: Re: Is there an SGML FAQ list? X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Forwarded-from: LJM At the last meeting, I mentioned the existence of some SGML resources to a few people, and promised to send them instructions for accessing these resources -- so here it is. The note below was a followup to my "Where's the FAQ" query on the comp.text.sgml USENET group. I particularly recommend the bibliography store on the anonymous ftp server (by the way, there _is_ a very preliminary FAQ available at this site as well). Enjoy! -- Leonard J. Moss | My views don't necessarily Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, MS 97 | reflect those of SLAC, Stanford, CA 94309 | Stanford or the DOE - - - - Forwarded Text - - - - From: SGML@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum) Subject: Re: Is there an SGML FAQ list? Date: 29 Aug 92 13:50:50 GMT Organization: Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway 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 Naggum | ISO 8879 SGML | +47 295 0313 | ISO 10744 HyTime | | ISO 10646 UCS | Memento, terrigena. | ISO 9899 C | Memento, vita brevis.