Miata Mailing List: March 1995, Message #51
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   From: jaimev@netcom.com (Jaime C. Villacorte)
Subject: Miata tips hypermail index available
   Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 14:20:34 -0500

I have a collection Miata-related tips & hints extracted from past
miata-list threads, and I've recently organized it into a hypermail
index (see http://www.eit.com/software/hypermail/hypermail.html for
more details about hypermail). This allows me to access the information
(which is basically a collection of Unix mail files) quickly and easily
via a web browser like Mosaic or Netscape. The tips and hints cover a
wide range of topics, much of which is not really addressed in the
current FAQ.

Unfortunately, I can't serve this information directly to the Internet. I 
currently have this on a local web server I'm running here at work, which
is behind a firewall. My Internet service provider (netcom) doesn't have
a Web server available yet; and the ftp access into their machine is quite
slow and sometimes hard to get to, so I don't really want to use ftp
as the transfer method to serve these web pages.

If you're interested in this Miata tips hypermail index (assuming, of course
you're be willing to store about 3.5 Mb of html files on your machine), I've
created a Unix tar archive of the relevant directory and placed it into
my anonymous ftp account at
	ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ja/jaimev/Miata/tips.tar

(The Unix "sum" command returns a "56368 3480" checksum for this file.)
For space reasons, I'll have to delete this in about a week or so.

When you retrieve this file (use binary mode in ftp), you can un-tar it with..
% tar xvf tips.tar

This creates a directory called Miata_Tips, full of html files. There's a
file in there called index.html which you can point to. That's the "master"
page for all the tips files.

If any of you Web-meisters decide to give this index a good home on your
Web server and allow access to it from the Internet, let the miata-list
know! I'm sure many people would love to have a point-and-click interface
to FAQ type material.


- jaime villacorte       jaimev@netcom.com || jaime@tcville.es.hac.com
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