From: Alan <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:43:47 +0800
To: Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com>
Subject: Re: New use for  Eternity Server
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On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Ray Arachelian wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, kelly wrote:
> 
> > Maybe someone should feed the pgp 5.0i sources to a c to HTML converter
> > and post the output to
> > the eternity servers..
> 
> Why bother?  Just prepend a <PRE> tag to each file and you're set. :)

Uh, not exactly...

The web browser will not show the code correctly.  (It will have problems
with > and <, for example.)  I guess it depends if you want it for display
or for execution.

A web interface for source code or executable content is difficult to do
well.  (Just try using the CPAN archives via http for a good example.)

Maybe the eternity documents need to have some sort of content header.

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