Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/05/31/20:26:17
Bob Babcock quoted:
> How about including a WP/text version of all the documentation...
> I went nuts playing with TEX and I never want to touch it again,
> I would have much prefered my dox in a more standard format.
and replied:
I'll bet the people who create the documentation feel the same way
about WP as you feel about TeX. I believe that at least some of
the documentation has been posted to omnigate in postscript format.
and I add:
According to the FSF TeXInfo *is* the standard. BTW, the location of
the Postscript version is gs257ps.zip and some other ?????ps.zip files
on ftp://omnigate.clarkson.edu/pub/msdos/djgpp/pub/.
While you're at FTP, why don't you get the list archives from
ftp://sun.soe.clarkson.edu/pub/msdos/djgpp/djgpp*, and you'll discover
that the docs issue has been around for a long time. Further, the PS
docs were kindly provided via the hard work of a couple of frustrated
users like you, and also Un*x-style man pages are around somewhere
(also volunteer-generated).
Here's your personal invitation to Join the Development Effort!
Docs are less important than the product in getting started, but more
important in dissemination and long-term success....
(PS. My own FAQ project is coming along slowly and haltingly; but
I'm through with the team-taught course in which I had to discipline
senior faculty in a language I don't speak very well ;-) Maybe
someday soon (Saturday...) I can get some serious work done).
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