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<li><em>To</em>: Hal Burgiss <<A HREF="mailto:hburgiss@bellsouth.net">hburgiss@bellsouth.net</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: [Re: Navigation, ...</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Martin WHEELER <<A HREF="mailto:mwheeler@startext.co.uk">mwheeler@startext.co.uk</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:19:05 +0000 (GMT)</li>
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On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote:
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> > > I wonder if each HOWTO (FAQ, etc) could have a 'KEYWORD' section,
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> > > maybe even behind a comment so it is invisible to the end user.
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> > > Then some clever soul could come with something like what
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> > > makewhatis is for man pages based on the keywords. Then something
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> > > like apropos to pull up a list of Docs that match. Even slicker to
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> > > output it into HTML or some other format where each Doc is
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> > > selectable from the generated list. Just thinking out loud ...
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> Well I got it with 'locate HOWTO | grep -i net' in about .2 seconds.
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> But that is not the point. You and I can probably find this much
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> pretty easily. There are many who can't, and probably those are the
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> ones who may need this info the most.
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> > I don't think that keywords that describe the entire HOWTO would be
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> > of much help. I've been hard-pressed to think up any important
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> > keywords to describe some HOWTOs.
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> That's strange.
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... it most certainly is!
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> > The abstracts of HOWTOs already exist, and could be utilized in
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> > searching. A simple way to do this would be to collect all the
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> > abstracts into a single file. Then a user would use grep, an
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> > editor, a pager, etc. to search that "abstract" file. I can now go
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> > to the HOWTO directory and use zgrep to search all words of all
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> > HOWTOs, but on an old PC it takes a while. So it would be faster to
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> > just search one abstract file. With the latest PCs it wouldn't save
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> > much time.
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Try htgrep
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(greps thro' a bunch of HTML and returns an HTMLised list of pages/docs,
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hotlinked wherever necessary. Only drawback is it only works ["out of
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the box"] on a single data file of HTML paragraphs -- one paragraph
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per doc.)
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<A HREF="http://iamwww.unibe.ch/~scg/Src/">http://iamwww.unibe.ch/~scg/Src/</A>
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msw
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Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England
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[1] mwheeler@startext.co.uk <A HREF="http://www.startext.co.uk/">http://www.startext.co.uk/</A>
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[2] mwheeler@familycentury.co.uk <A HREF="http://www.familycentury.co.uk/">http://www.familycentury.co.uk/</A>
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