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FAQ last updated: Sun Jul 16 15:46:57 EDT 2023

This is a periodic pointer to the Frequently-Asked Questions list (FAQ)
for the alt.os.linux.slackware newsgroup. The FAQ which may be
frequently referred to in messages posted to the newsgroup may be found
in its original text form at

https://www.therockgarden.ca/aolsfaq.txt


A translation to Brazilian Portuguese of this FAQ is in progress at

https://carriunix.github.io/ptbr_aolsfaq.txt.


There is also an HTML-rendered copy at

http://l0k1.free.fr/aolsfaq.html

[Diniz Bortolotto]

Post by Periodic FAQ Pointer
A translation to Brazilian Portuguese of this FAQ is in progress at
https://carriunix.github.io/ptbr_aolsfaq.txt.

Hi Sylvain!
My name is Diniz and I'm a Brazilian Slackware user. :-)
To read newsgroups I'm running slrn in Konsole and noticed that the
'automatic' link to ptbr FAQ fails because that single point after
'txt'. It is added to link and that page is not found. LOL.
I think that, if you could just remove it, the link would work fine.
Just a small detail. Not a great problem.
Tks! Have a nice day. :-)

Diniz Bortolotto

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Post by Diniz Bortolotto

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A translation to Brazilian Portuguese of this FAQ is in progress at
https://carriunix.github.io/ptbr_aolsfaq.txt.

Hi Sylvain!
My name is Diniz and I'm a Brazilian Slackware user. :-)

Eyup, Diniz :-)

Post by Diniz Bortolotto
To read newsgroups I'm running slrn in Konsole and noticed that the
'automatic' link to ptbr FAQ fails because that single point after
'txt'. It is added to link and that page is not found. LOL.
I think that, if you could just remove it, the link would work fine.
Just a small detail. Not a great problem.

Back in the day, they called this "dingus clicking":

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/99/10/12/214230/october-gnome-released

Interestingly, ChromeOS's terminal application is smart enough to know
to ignore the trailing period. But I think you are correct that it would
be better to have it removed. Not sure who has access to change that,
though :-(

[Sylvain Robitaille]

Post by Diniz Bortolotto
To read newsgroups I'm running slrn in Konsole and noticed that the
'automatic' link to ptbr FAQ fails because that single point after
'txt'. It is added to link and that page is not found. LOL.
I think that, if you could just remove it, the link would work fine.

Removed. Thanks for pointing that out, and sorry that it took me so
long to get to dealing with it.