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- From: Sven Guckes <guckes@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Subject: Re: Frequently Asked Questions?
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 15:12:58 GMT
-
- Info-Mac@sumex-aim.stanford.edu writes:
-
- >This seems to be a circular reference.
- >Do people frequently ask where to find answers to frequently asked questions?
- >I have been looking for a "FAQ" file somewhere in the sumex-aim ftp.
- >Any suggestions?
-
- I suggest looking into the *.answers groups, especially news.answers.
-
- I've done a little "FAQ of FAQs" about this, so I will append it here.
-
- Sven :)
-
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-
- From: FAQofFAQs
- Subject: 00 Administrative stuff
-
- X-FAQ-name: FAQofFAQs for "apple, macintosh"
- X-Version: 00 (just a first draft)
- X-Last-Updated: 930420
- X-Author: Sven Guckes :)
-
- From: FAQofFAQs
- Subject: 01 Required Knowledge for understanding this text
-
- FAQ := Frequently Asked Question (or list thereof)
-
- This text is a FAQofFAQs, i.e. it is a FAQ to help you find FAQ listings
- on the Usenet.
-
- Many newsreader programs can split up this text to let you choose the
- seperate parts with a menu.
- With the newsreader "nn" you can do this with typing 'G' and then '%'.
- Most other newsreaders supposedly let you do this with '^g'.
-
- From: FAQofFAQs
- Subject: 02 Contents
-
- This FAQofFAQs lists all FAQs that meet these criteria:
- - crossposted to news.answers
- - the subject line contains either of the keywords "apple" or "macintosh"
-
- From: FAQofFAQs
- Subject: 03 About the items in this list
-
- This FAQ lists the most important header lines of each FAQ.
- I hope the selected order answers the questions in order of priority.
-
- Header line ... answers these questions (hopefully)
- ----------- ---------------------------------------
- Subject: What's it all about?
- Summary: What's in it?
- Newsgroups: Where do I find this?
- Date: When was this posted?
- Expires: When will the next update come along?
- Lines: How long is this thing?
- From: Whodunnit?
- Organization: Where is this person from, anyway?
-
- Header lines that were gobbled by the editor for breakfast, luch, and dinner:
- Approved:, Followup-To:, Keywords:, Message-ID:, NNTP-Posting-Host:, Path:,
- References:, Reply-To:, Sender:, Supersedes:, X-Last-Updated:, Xref:.
-
-
- From: FAQofFAQs
- Subject: 04 The list
-
- Abstract:
-
- Three FAQs are maintained by Elliotte Rusty Harold (erh0362@tesla.njit.edu):
- - The "general FAQ"
- - The "system FAQ"
- - The "misc FAQ"
-
- The FAQ about UNIX for the Macintoshs is from
- Jim Jagielski (jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov) and comes in two parts.
-
- =====
-
-
- The "general FAQ" - please read this one!
-
- Subject: Introductory Macintosh frequently asked questions (FAQ)
- Summary: This document answers a number of the most frequently asked
- questions about Macintoshes on Usenet.
- To avoid wasting bandwidth and as a matter of politeness
- please familiarize yourself with this document BEFORE posting.
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,
- comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.answers,
- news.answers
- Date: 7 Apr 1993 00:00:12 -0400
- Expires: 5 May 1993 04:00:04 GMT
- Lines: 1012
- From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
- Organization: Department of Mathematics, NJIT
-
-
- The "system FAQ":
-
- Subject: Macintosh system software frequently asked questions (FAQ)
- Summary: This document answers a number of the most frequently asked
- questions about Macintosh system software on Usenet.
- To avoid wasting bandwidth and as a matter of politeness
- please familiarize yourself with this document BEFORE posting.
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.answers,news.answers
- Date: 7 Apr 1993 00:00:16 -0400
- Expires: <none>
- Lines: 511
- From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
- Organization: Department of Mathematics, NJIT
-
-
- The "misc FAQ":
-
- Subject: Miscellaneous Macintosh frequently asked questions (FAQ)
- Summary: This document answers a number of the most frequently asked
- questions about Macintoshes on Usenet.
- To avoid wasting bandwidth and as a matter of politeness
- please familiarize yourself with this document BEFORE posting.
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.answers,news.answers
- Date: 7 Apr 1993 00:00:19 -0400
- Expires: 5 May 1993 04:00:04 GMT
- Lines: 713
- From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
- Organization: Department of Mathematics, NJIT
-
-
- The FAQ about UNIX:
- (This FAQ comes in two parts.)
-
- Subject: Apple A/UX FAQ List (1/2)
- Summary: Latest posting of FAQ for A/UX
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,news.answers,comp.answers
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 12:06:55 GMT
- Expires: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 00:00:00 GMT
- Lines: 1122
- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
-
- Subject: Apple A/UX FAQ List (2/2)
- Summary: Latest posting of FAQ for A/UX
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,news.answers,comp.answers
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 12:08:49 GMT
- Expires: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 00:00:00 GMT
- Lines: 890
- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
-
- ====
-
- That's all, folks!
-
- If you can give additional information to this list - please let me know.
-
- Sven :)
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