Cyclic FAQ-O-Matic page

The FAQ-O-Matic package allows people to edit version controlled files using nothing but a standard web browser. It uses RCS rather than CVS, but is a good example of the kind of web interface which it would be nice to have for CVS, for some purposes. It is designed for files which contain lists of questions and answers, rather than arbitrary files.

As of version 2.3b10 and later, FAQ-O-Matic is under the GNU General Public License.

Example of FAQ-O-Matic in action

See for example the FAQ-O-Matic FAQ-O-Matic mentioned below.

Mailing lists and newsgroups

I'm not aware of mailing lists or newsgroups concerning FAQ-O-Matic.

FAQ-O-Matic versions

We recommend FAQ-O-Matic version 2. Version 2 adds a vast number of features compared to version 1 (like new ways to control who can edit the document, more ways to reorder questions, and more ways to show what has changed in the document recently). It also cleans up quite a few quirks (for example, version 1 seems to be very picky about which browsers can edit questions, and it doesn't cope very well when people edit answers which contain "<" or ">"). For more detailed lists of versions and what has changed, see the FAQ-O-Matic FAQ-O-Matic mentioned below.

Downloading FAQ-O-Matic

I suppose we need to make an explicit disclaimer that FAQ-O-Matic is not supported by Cyclic.

Download FAQ-O-Matic from the author's page mentioned below.

For more information

See the FAQ-O-Matic FAQ-O-Matic from John Howell, the author of FAQ-O-Matic. It includes FAQ-O-Matic documentation, a "playground" where you can experiment with editing answers using FAQ-O-Matic, a list of FAQ-O-Matics, and more.

The CVS FAQ-O-Matic may be of interest to people who are interested in CVS. Note that, last we looked, it was using a rather old version of FAQ-O-Matic (1.x), and so in that sense isn't the best illustration of FAQ-O-Matic.