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- FSC-0017
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- FidoNet(tm) Standards Committee
- Archive Philosophy and Document Naming
- March 30, 1988
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- Date: Tue 29 Mar 88 20:13
- From: Randy Bush
- To: Chuck Venter
- Subj: Re: This echo
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- AREA:NET_DEV
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- What is intended by this document registry
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- o Starting a document archive with a naming convention based on the current
- one, FSC-nnnn.ARC.
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- o The first few documents are the current FSC001 & 2, but using the new naming
- convention.
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- o Grabbing the dozen documents which detail the current FidoNet technology
- (MYFSC001, N_YOOHOO, ...) , or provide well-documented proposals for changes,
- arranging them in date order without prejudice and issuing them numbers.
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- The ongoing plan is
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- o Similarly to the NIC, when a document is revised, it is given a new number,
- and states what documents it obsoletes. Many have said that this should
- have been done with FSC001.
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- o Occasional documents will provide bibliographies of the archive.
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- o Occasional documents will give advice as to which subset of the registry
- represents the currently accepted standard.
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- o Contributions hungrily accepted. Send text<tm>.
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- Naming Convention
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- 1. Document names begin with "FSC-nnnn".
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- 2. Documents are numbered sequentially from 0001, with new document numbers
- being assigned to new drafts.
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- 3. Extensions are
- a) .ARC - The distributed ARChive file
- b) .TXT - ASCII text file for screen or printer
- c) .DOC - ASCII text file for screen or printer
- d) .CHT - ASCII chart, may be wide or long or both
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