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Henning Hucke
Jan 19, 2021, 1:37:43 AM1/19/21
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Hello still usenet news users,
I know of "post-faq" which was part of the debian suite to post FAQs
into the usenet. But on one hand its not too modern anymore and on the
other hand lacks some functionalities.
Could you please give me some pointers to alternative software systems
for the same purpose?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards
Henning
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How many bits would a BitBlit blit if a BitBlit could blit bits?
-- macan...@waves.pas.ti.com in <1993Nov16...@waves.pas.ti.com>
I know of "post-faq" which was part of the debian suite to post FAQs
into the usenet. But on one hand its not too modern anymore and on the
other hand lacks some functionalities.
Could you please give me some pointers to alternative software systems
for the same purpose?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards
Henning
--
How many bits would a BitBlit blit if a BitBlit could blit bits?
-- macan...@waves.pas.ti.com in <1993Nov16...@waves.pas.ti.com>
Russ Allbery
Jan 19, 2021, 1:30:51 PM1/19/21
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Henning Hucke <h_hucke+...@newsmail.aeon.icebear.org> writes:
> I know of "post-faq" which was part of the debian suite to post FAQs
> into the usenet. But on one hand its not too modern anymore and on the
> other hand lacks some functionalities.
> Could you please give me some pointers to alternative software systems
> for the same purpose?
I wrote my own eons ago because I didn't like auto-faq and wanted
> I know of "post-faq" which was part of the debian suite to post FAQs
> into the usenet. But on one hand its not too modern anymore and on the
> other hand lacks some functionalities.
> Could you please give me some pointers to alternative software systems
> for the same purpose?
something a lot simpler, and I still use it, but I'm not sure it's any
more modern or has the functionality that you want.
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/postfaq/
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Russ Allbery (ea...@eyrie.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
Henning Hucke
Jan 20, 2021, 2:37:41 AM1/20/21
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On 2021-01-19, Russ Allbery <ea...@eyrie.org> wrote:
Hi Russ,
> [...]
Your solutions is IMHO a good thing for posting a few FAQs from
an individual user account.
What I like with "post-faq" is the list which specifies the FAQ files
and the necessary parameters for them.
What I don't like is that the configuration file is also used as the
status database - meaning that the config file itself changes its state
which makes version control difficult - and that there are only a few
not too helpfull substitution strings / placeholders available.
Anyway... I think I'll pumpup "post-faq" itself, possibly write my own
program.
> [...]
Best regards
Henning
--
"nobody is perfect."
-- Nobody ;)
Hi Russ,
> [...]
> I wrote my own eons ago because I didn't like auto-faq and wanted
> something a lot simpler, and I still use it, but I'm not sure it's any
> more modern or has the functionality that you want.
thanks for the pointer. I had a look on it.
> something a lot simpler, and I still use it, but I'm not sure it's any
> more modern or has the functionality that you want.
Your solutions is IMHO a good thing for posting a few FAQs from
an individual user account.
What I like with "post-faq" is the list which specifies the FAQ files
and the necessary parameters for them.
What I don't like is that the configuration file is also used as the
status database - meaning that the config file itself changes its state
which makes version control difficult - and that there are only a few
not too helpfull substitution strings / placeholders available.
Anyway... I think I'll pumpup "post-faq" itself, possibly write my own
program.
> [...]
Best regards
Henning
--
"nobody is perfect."
-- Nobody ;)
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