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<li><em>To</em>: Andrew P Moise <<A HREF="mailto:moise%2B@andrew.cmu.edu">moise+@andrew.cmu.edu</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: I wanna contribute to LDP</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Dan Scott <<A HREF="mailto:dan.scott@acm.org">dan.scott@acm.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:49:53 -0400 (EDT)</li>
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Andrew P Moise wrote:
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> So I'm stunned as always at how helpful a particular HOWTO has been to
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> me, and I'd like the opportunity to give something back. Two things I
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> think I'd be reasonably competent to do are:
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> An Algorithms-HOWTO, a quick sketch of hash tables, sorting, red-black
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> trees, heaps, and the like, for people who have no formal training in
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> computer science but want to move from shell scripts to real programming
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> (including links to proper-length documentation on the stuff).
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To be completely selfish, I would love to see an Algorithm-HOWTO (I've
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been moving from shell scripts to real programming for years, but never
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quite seem to get there). I wouldn't be surprised if you identified a
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sizable audience with this one.
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> man pages on file formats; sox and gd nonwithstanding, there's been
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> many a time when I just wanted to know what the header fields in an .au
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> file were and had to spend a couple minutes on the web/in the source to
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> find it out, and a man page with structs included would have made my
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> life more convenient. Even the non-trivial formats like PNG or (ha!)
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> MPEG could be explained in terms of record structure, with links to
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> detailed explanations of the compression. I can't pledge the lifetime
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> of work it would take to document them all, but I think I could make a
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> not-quite-miniscule dent.
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This also sounds like a worthwhile project, given that (in some
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cases) file formats are far more stable than the programs that make use of
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them.
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Me being me, if I had to choose between your two proposed HOWTOs I would
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probably want the Algorithm-HOWTO. But I look forward to whichever one (or
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both!) you decide to work on.
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Dan
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Dan Scott,
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