Keith said:
Before December 25, the web version of the FAQ hadn't been updated in
several years. It now appears to be up to date (and reformatted).
Here's the scoop:
Back when I did the book version, I expanded the base of material
about threefold. Some of the new book material also went back into
the plain-text Usenet version. Also, that was the birth of the
webified HTML version, which contained more or less the same text
as the Usenet version, with a few additions.
Since then, I've made various levels of corrections and additions
and improvements, although until recently I didn't manage to,
like, actually publicly *post* much of the new material or
anything. The Usenet version saw a few, sporadic, significant
improvements, but except for a couple of patches the web version
remained mired in its nineteen-ninety-I'm-embarrassed-to-say
state.
But, finally, as of July 2004 the Usenet version is up-to-date
with all the corrections and samples of new material I felt it
needed, and as of Christmas, the web version is up-to-date with
*everything*. (Well, everything contentwise, anyway; the HTML
formatting unfortunately still needs some work.) In particular,
the web version at
http://c-faq.com now contains all the text
from the book, plus new material that doesn't even appear in the
book. So anywhere it still says "the book version contains 2-3
times as much material as the on-line versions" is now wrong.
Unfortunately, generating any of these versions from the master
manuscripts is never as trivial and automatic as it's supposed
to be. I need to run off a new version of the plain-text,
posted-to-Usenet version again, although the changes since
July '04 that would affect it are (so far) still slight.
Steve Summit
(e-mail address removed)
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