Subject: Re: The FAQ? From: Rubywand Date: Tue, Sep 29, 1998 08Ç47(H Message-id: <3611012D.2E570F1B@swbell.net> Supertimer writes ... > > Rubywand wrote: > > > If you want to download the FAQs for viewing via Appleworks, > >Coolwriter, etc. on your Apple II, or if you are using an ftp program > >(like WS_ftp) to View files, you are likely to be better off with ... > > > >ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/ > >http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/ > > > >Start with file Csa21FaqsMH.txt. > > What's wrong with using Netscape, IE, or even the AOL > browser to view ground? > > I tried it. It works. Yes; it works. However, there is a difference in the formatting of the FAQs on Ground and on the two mirror sites. The FAQs on the mirror sites include line-ender control characters for each line. When viewed via Netscape or IE4, you get a display which can be read easily with no need to use the horizontal scroll bar. If downloaded and moved to Appleworks, the files look fine on an 80-col display, too. The downside of this format is that it defeats word processor displays which incorporate word-wrap. You are stuck with 70+ chars per line for viewing and printouts. Simply removing all CR's produces a mess, even with a 'smart' CR remover which recognizes paragraphs-- diagrams and program listings need to retain their line-enders. On Ground, the FAQs do not include line-ender characters for every 72 (or whatever) characters. This works fine everywhere except when viewing on-line via Netscape, etc.. On Netscape, a paragraph shows up as a single long line which must be scrolled horizontally. (If you know of some way to make Netscape do word-wrapping of text viewed on-line, let me know.) Of course, if you access the Ground FAQs via an FTP program, then, doing a View for a file automatically opens a window for NotePad or WordPad or some other text viewer which will do word-wrapping and the file looks great. The same is true if you download a FAQs file and view it via WordPad on your PC or via Appleworks on your IIgs or via a text viewer on a 40-col Apple. If you want to print out any FAQs files, the ones on Ground are the way to go. So, for on-line FAQs viewing via Netscape, etc. the recommendation is ... http://www.grin.net/~cturley/A2.FAQs.and.INFO/CSA2.FAQs/ ftp://apple.cabi.net/pub/applegs/FAQs.and.INFO/A2.Csa2.FAQs/ For FAQs viewing via an FTP client or for downloading, editing, and/or printing out, the recommendation is ... ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/ http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Faqs/ Rubywand