From: brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown)
Subject: Re: Address of FAQ site for comp.lang.c
Organization: Oak Road Systems, Cleveland Ohio USA
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:37:00 GMT

In article <9204071701.AA02138@DOPEY.CS.NYU.EDU> m-sj7228@DOPEY.CS.NYU.EDU (Sanjay Jaiswal) writes:
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>Can anyone inform the FAQ site address for comp.lang.c ?

Sorry, I'm not quite clear on whether you want to send something to the
author of the FAQ list, or you want to pick up a copy from the archives.

If you want to email to the list author, Steve Summit, his address is
scs@adam.mit.edu.  But if you want to get a copy of tyhe list, you can
do that yourself without bothering him.  I'm appending canned
instructions since others might appreciate this information too.


            HOW TO GET FAQ LISTS (THREE AND A HALF METHODS)

Sorry, I'm not able to mail out copies of FAQ lists.  But at least I can
tell you how to get them for yourself.

When looking for an FAQ list, first do the obvious and check the relevant
newsgroup for articles with "FAQ" in the subject line.  If you don't know
how to check articles marked as read, your sysadmin can tell you.

Next, try the group news.answers.  FAQ lists for many groups are cross-
posted there.  Subject lines usually contain the names of the base
newsgroups.  For instance, all the misc.consumers FAQ lists will have
"misc.consumers" in their subject lines.  Again, your sysadmin can tell
you the commands to use in searching.

The articles in news.answers are posted in such a way that each version
should stay around at each site until the new version is posted.  But
some sites are configured so that this does not occur.  If FAQ lists
that you're looking for have expired in news.answers at your site, you
can get copies of them by FTP or email.

Jonathan Kamens of MIT's Project Athena has kindly set up an archive of
periodic postings.  By way of example, I give specific instructions
below for getting FAQs from comp.lang.c, comp.os.msdos.programmer, and
misc.consumers plus some general material on getting the most out of Usenet.

(For general instructions on the server, send email containing the
commands "help" and "send index" (no quotes, separate lines) to
mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu.  For a list of all periodic postings
that are archives in news.answers, email the command "send
usenet/news.answers/index" to the server.)

via anonymous FTP
=================
Periodic postings including FAQs are archived at "pit-manager.mit.edu"
(18.72.1.58), in the directory "/pub/usenet".  The structure of this
directory is such that each subdirectory is a newsgroup name, and the
files in the subdirectories are the periodic postings, which include:

    /pub/usenet/news.answers/C-faq/faq
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/msdos-programmer-faq/part1
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/consumer-credit-faq/part1
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/consumer-credit-faq/part2
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/consumer-credit-faq/part3
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/news-announce-intro/part1
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/news-newusers-intro
    /pub/usenet/news.answers/posting-rules/part1

Don't worry about the files that have a part1 and no part2; that's just
how the directory structure is set up.

via email server
================
The address of the server is mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu.  To
retrieve files, send email to the server with a blank subject and one or
more of these lines in the body:

    send usenet/news.answers/C-faq/faq
    send usenet/news.answers/msdos-programmer-faq/part1
    send usenet/news.answers/consumer-credit-faq/part1
    send usenet/news.answers/consumer-credit-faq/part2
    send usenet/news.answers/consumer-credit-faq/part3
    send usenet/news.answers/news-announce-intro/part1
    send usenet/news.answers/news-newusers-intro
    send usenet/news.answers/posting-rules/part1

Don't worry about the files that have a part1 and no part2; that's just
how the directory structure is set up.
---------------------------------------------------(end how to get FAQs)

-- 
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA   brown@ncoast.org

"All my life I've wanted to be somebody. I see now I should have been
more specific."                                         --Lily Tomlin
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