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This chapter is mostly about the FAQ itself.

Creating this FAQ
=================

The FAQ is written and maintained in HTML as the source format. I use Netscape
for previewing it and to generate the ASCII and PostScript versions.

To Do
=====

If you take use FAQ as a resource list, it will help answer a lot of those
Frequently Asked Questions. However, there are a few which I see pop up from
time to time which haven't made it to the FAQ yet. I hope to add them (with
answers!) under the Miscellaneous Questions section. Some I could use help
with:

   * more info on flocking and behavioral animation
   * info on onionskinning

And these are a few things internal to the FAQ which I hope to do soon:

   * finish updating the full "Animation Software" chapter and post it as a
     separate FAQ.
   * add Subject: lines to allow "rn" navigating thru ^G
   * Add renderers to the Software chapter (Pixar's prman, BMRT, POV, etc)

Resource Specifications
=======================

URLs
----

A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator. URLs are an artifact of the World Wide Web
(WWW)... for more information on URLs and the Web, check out the WWW FAQ at
URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/www_faq.html

Hopefully in the HTML version of the FAQ, all the real URL's will be marked up
as such, while pseudo-URLs (see below) and other bogus ones will not (and
should appear as plain text). In the ASCII/PS versions, look for real URL's as:

        URL: http://anyplace.site/this/file.html

...and fake, incomplete, or pseudo-URL's as:

        `ftp://noplace.site/not/here.txt'

If you find a reference in this document that is incorrect or simply
unreachable, please let me know!

FTP URLs
--------

   References to anonymously FTP-able files look like the following.
     ftp://site/path/document
     ftp://avalon.viewpoint.com/pub/format_specs/iffspecs.lzh
           ^ftp-site              ^path            ^document

`/pub' at the root of the path is often assumed. Some FTP references given in
this document are incomplete, indicating a directory to browse in or whose
whole contents are relevant, or some degree of uncertainty (these have a
trailing slash ('/'), ellipsis ('...'), or Unix-style wildcards) Many FTP-able
files are mirrored on other sites to reduce bandwidth; use `archie' to find a
copy near you.

Mailing List pseudo-URLs
------------------------

References to mailing lists are pseudo-URLs, and look like the following:

     mail://address/subject/"body"
     mail://listserv@netcom.com//"subscribe animaster-l"
            ^who to mail to       ^what to put in the message body

Note that the second (subject) field is often blank (as it is in this example),
as is the third (message body) field.

Acknowledgements
================

The really -BIG- thanks, of course, goes to Angus Montgomery
(angus@godzilla.cgl.rmit.edu.au). He's the one who made the FAQ happen, and
it's his work I continue to build on.

Other thanks go to:

     Sean Brandenburg     Ken Baer             Matt Carpenter
     Mark Crawford        Kim Davidson         Marc Edgar
     Luigi Filippin       Andy Gough           Eric Haines
     Paul Hertz           Jih-Shin Ho          Dudley Hunkins
     Colin Jensen         Charles King         Ole Villumsen
     Jean-Marc Krattli    Alan Larson          Nadine Leenders
     Wolfgang Leister     Jeff Massie          Colin Millerchip
     Akira Mito           Mike Morrison        Jimmy Ning
     Mark Podlipec        Scott H. Pultz       Frank Roussel
     Wolfram Schwenzer    Steve Siegel         Harry Sokol
     Erik Timmerman       James Tizard         Chris Trimble
     Chris Williams       Rob Zimmelman        Craig Good
     Daniele Colajacomo   Hal Hickel

...and countless others who contribute daily to the "signal" portion of
comp.graphics.animation.

Aloha,
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