To each of these messages, I now send a "canned" reply (see below)
stating that I no longer have resources to support this package.
This is in addition to the "status of www_and_frame" message at:
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/www_and_frame.html
which states that I can't support the package and I'm looking for a
new maintainer.
Matt Ranney <mjr@syl.dl.nec.com> has been supporting the package in my
stead for some time. [Thanks, Matt]. But he's running out of time to
spend on this thing too.
But certainly, by now, one of the other Frame/HTML packages is better
than this one, no?
Which one do folks actually use? I'd like to have something to recommend
to folks who inquire about www_and_frame.
Alternatively, if none of the other options really solves the problem,
would somebody like to pick up www_and_frame and enhance it? I'm
willing to consult. And I have some code I was working on a while ago
that I never got a chance to clean up for release. Let me know if
you're interested.
Canned reply:
From: "Frequently Asked Questions of Dan Connolly"
http://www.hal.com/%7Econnolly/FAQ.html
<li> <a name="frame"><em>I heard about your <tt>www_and_frame</tt>
package, and I want to know more about it, or I can't get it to
work.</em></a>
<p> I developed this while I was at Convex, and since I left there in
Feb 1993, I haven'nt been actively maintaining it. I expect some of the
other MIF2HTML converters out there are better. You might try:
<ul>
<li> <a href="mailto:mjr@syl.dl.nec.com">Matt Ranney</a>. He
graciously volunteered to support <tt>www_and_frame</tt> a
long time ago. I haven't heard much from him lately, though.
<li> <a href="harward@convex.com">Ken Harward at Convex</a>. He
maintains some tools to convert from MIF to all sorts of
formats. I'm not sure if they're available for general
distribution.
<li> <a href="http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/Word_proc_filters.html#Framemaker">Mike
Sendall's notes</a> on HTML/Frame conversion tools.
</ul>