You'll probably reduce overall 'net traffic a bit by choosing a close site:
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Here's how you can get a bundled and compressed copy of the HTML files of C++ FAQ Lite e-mailed to you:
Restriction: you must still abide by the Copyright Notice and Copying Permissions. In particular, you must not redistribute C++ FAQ Lite to others without permission from the author. If you want to redistribute C++ FAQ Lite to someone else, the easiest way is to tell them about this one-click download feature, and let them get their own copy.
Restriction: the FAQ uses "long filenames." If your machine can't handle long filenames (e.g., if it's DOS and/or Windows 3.x), you cannot unpack the FAQ. UNIX, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Mac all handle long filenames correctly.
Note: e-mail was selected over FTP or HTTP.
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The "plaintext" version of C++ FAQ Lite is posted monthly on comp.lang.c++. These simple text files are mechanically produced by stripping the HTML tags from the HTML files on www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/. Therefore the plaintext files aren't as pretty to look at and don't have the hyper-linked cross references, but they have basically the same information as the HTML files.
Here's how you can get a bundled and compressed copy of the plaintext files of C++ FAQ Lite e-mailed to you:
Restriction: you must still abide by the Copyright Notice and Copying Permissions. In particular, you must not redistribute C++ FAQ Lite to others without permission from the author. If you want to redistribute C++ FAQ Lite to someone else, the easiest way is to tell them about this one-click download feature, and let them get their own copy.
Note: e-mail was selected over FTP or HTTP.
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Using FTP or HTTP would have a "cache coherency" problem.
Over the years I've noticed that there are a lot of out-of-date (nay, ancient) copies of C++ FAQ Lite floating around the Internet. This has caused a lot of confusion since these ancient versions often contained bugs, missed features, and generally outdated information. Not only has it caused confusion for many, it has resulted in a plethora of worthless email in my inbox. I couldn't ever seem to get "over the hump": no matter how clear I made the current version, hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people were unaware that they were reading an outdated version. That made it harder for both them and me.
By downloading the C++ FAQ Lite via email rather than ftp, I'm able to provide an extra service for people: the robot mailer (the Perl script that sends the FAQ copies to everyone) remembers which version of the FAQ each person has, and when someone's version becomes out of date, the robot will send them a courtesy email. Something like, "Your copy of the FAQ is out of date; if you want to upgrade, click here". (Note: I haven't built this feature yet; please be patient.)
The goal is to help you keep up-to-date, so you won't end up reading outdated information. And also to keep my inbox from getting flooded with questions from confused readers who are reading a copy of the FAQ written before they discovered Fire.
So please please don't send me e-mail asking for an FTP address since there isn't one. Thanks!
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There are two:
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Here is a French translation of the C++ FAQ.
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Here is a Russian translation of the C++ FAQ.
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Here is a Portuguese translation of the FAQ.
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