This news can also be found on google at http://groups.google.com/groups?q=eric+poncet&start=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=1993Apr5.135631.27774%40jussieu.fr&rnum=14
Now that the web is widely used, this news may look a bit stupid... However, back in 1993, this web thing was still "confidential" :)

Date: 1993-04-06 03:59:30 PST 
From: Eric Poncet (ep@masi.ibp.fr)
Subject: Who wanna help a beginner ? 
Newsgroups: comp.databases
 
I'm a beginning user of the news.

I'd like to knows what the abbreviation "FAQ" stands for.

What is exactly IDAPI ?

Please reply by E-mail:


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