Subject:    -2- How do the FAQs support the World Wide Web?
Date: 28 Oct 1995 00:00:01 EST

  Tom Fine <fine@cis.ohio-state.edu> runs a service which converts FAQs
  to hypertext (HTML). A list of the converted FAQs is at

    http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/

  and the SGI FAQs are at

    http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/sgi/top.html

  You can view them with any World Wide Web browser, probably Mosaic
  (which you can get from ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/Mosaic/),
  Netscape (ftp://ftp.netscape.com/netscape/unix/ for the generic
  version or http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/netscape/page1.html
  for the custom SGI version) or, for text terminals, Lynx
  (ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/WWW/lynx/). A Mosaic binary for IRIX
  4.0.x, including WAIS support, is in IBD's SGI collection; see below
  under "WWW pages".

  Some types of references in the SGI FAQs are in particular formats so
  they will be recognized and turned into links to other documents:

  - References to Internet services are written as URLs.
    ('protocol://site/path/file'). If you're reading the SGI FAQs as
    plain text, you can still paste URLs into your browser. If you're
    not using a WWW browser and you want to access an FTP URL
    ('ftp://site/path/file'), just do 'ftp site', 'cd /path' and 'get
    file' as usual to get a file.  References to directories end with
    slashes so you know what you're getting into.  References to root
    directories (e.g. 'ftp://ftp.uu.net/') do not work; this is a known
    bug.  Some FTP servers are not Mosaic-compatible; just use 'ftp'.

  - Manpages look like 'foo(1)' and Internet RFCs look like 'RFC####'.
    Beware: Tom Fine is a Sun person, so the manpages are for SunOS.