This is the [official] Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list for the newsgroup sci.electronics.repair. It is a body of knowledge that hopes to guide you when YOU are attempting to diagnose and repair just about anything that plugs into the wall or runs off batteries, more or less.
Major parts of the FAQ were written by Samuel M. Goldwasser
| [mailto]) parts were gathered off the net, and yet other parts were written by me, Filip Gieszczykiewicz | [mailto]) who whipped all of the above into the rather, might I say, intuitive and friendly "Look and Feel" that you will encounter throughout this web site, keeps improving this site, and pays the bills...Notice: Since various articles may be written by different authors, please check the "About the Author & Copyright" sections in each document before sending corrections, feedback, or (and especially) praise! I forward all the e-mail that I do not feel that applies to me, but you will understand how much better it feels for Sam when he gets the e-mail directly from those who appreciate it most!
It's a pity that this question EVER arises! The assumption that everyone sits on a T1 and has a 1024x768 screen is just plain silly and shows a level of ignorance that rivals local politics... [smile]. With that in mind:
Well, now you know where I stand on this issue. Incidentally, I tried this site on a Commodore 64 (40 column screen, 2400 baud modem): quite acceptable, actually. Don't try this at home with those other sites, kids. [sigh]
This site is founded upon non-commercial interests. Those interests range from providing the general public with useful and helpful information to helping the environment by saving a few [thousand?] cubic feet of would-be refuse from the land-fills to just the joy of sharing knowledge. In short, no, there are no commercial interests.
Further, inclusion of commercial products, services, and offerings is provided only as an aid to the (generally non-commercial-technitian) reader. If you represent an entity that offers such a service or product, please read [How do I get my company listed in your FAQ?] for more information on this subject.
TWO, at the moment.
I have made text 'prints' of the sci.electronics.repair FAQ. For those who have always wanted all those "silly segments in one big file", this is exactly what you wanted :-)
They are available in two formats:
Both files are around 1.8MB in size. Here are the sites that presently carry the text-snapshots:
In the foreseeable future, these text-snapshots should not exceed 3MB in size (each). If you feel that you can provide a mirror for them, please contact me, Filip
| [mailto]) for more information.Note: I am most interested in sites that can preserve the filenames of both files (ie. the OS supports long filenames :-)
Due to lack of time, size of the FAQ, and plain inconvinience of the affair, Samuel M. Goldwasser will no longer be able to e-mail the FAQ directly to you. We are looking to set up some sort of mail-server. It will most likely send out the FAQ (or parts of thereof) in ZIP.uu format (PKZIPped and then uuencoded) to save space. Some sort of e-mail verification will be done as bounces still cost a finite amount of load. More on this as things develop. If you feel that such a service is desired, please send me a short
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Every few days, an automatic post is made to sci.electronics.repair and related groups, proclaiming the existence of the FAQ and its location and "Availability". This post goes out on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. A second, larger post goes out on Sunday. It includes a listing of the FAQ Table of Contents (ToC) (along with all the information in the first post).
If you do not wish to view these periodic posts, please contact your service provider or news-reading software help for more information on "kill files". This feature, found in many common news-reading software packages, allows the software to automatically kill articles which meet a certain criteria. For example, in this case, you will want to tell it to kill any and all articles which contain "FAQP" and "FAQI" (capitalized) in the "Subject:" line. It is not possible for me to help you further, so you will need to look for more specific information on your own.
I am very interested in mirroring the sci.electronics.repair FAQ in other countries/continents. Since the current size of the FAQ is about 7.3MB, I would like to have about 8-10MB of space (to anticipate future expansion).
I can process a copy directly for your site and upload it as either a tar.Z (unix compress) or tar.gz (GNU gzip) formats (via anonymous ftp) to your incoming directory. All you have to do is uncompress&untar it in the directory we agreed on (so all the paths work). It's as simple as that![*]
I am very interested in setting up mirrors in:
If you feel that you can provide space for the mirror, please contact me, Filip, with
or [mailto]. I look forwards to hearing from you.[*] To ease portability, all cgi-bin's are still executed on the Texas, USA site. The same is true for the SearchSite and ScopedSearch. More involved and comprehensive 'mirroring' cgi's will be written when I have some time and the demand warrants.
This is now a seperate document (for faster transfers of the Readme file) and you can get it from CHANGELOG (TLJVERERR) (Sep_25_1997!) (TLJFILE!FOUND)