From:	Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Message-Id:	<199907160049.UAA25733@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA>
Subject:	Re: DJGPP: Request for license to copy IEEE Standards (fwd)
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 1999 20:49:29 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To:	<378E3219.83D97675@inti.gov.ar> from "salvador" at Jul 15, 99 04:10:17 pm
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Bonjour M. salvador

> >   I'm not sure is this belong to the mailing list anymore
> >   but if someone with enough (english)knowledge could decypher
> >   Please get it touch with me.
> >
> > - It looks by electronic they mean PDF.  Is there a pdf <-> html
> >   converter.
> 
> Yes they mean pdf, IEEE stores all the documents (even the magazines) in pdf
> files. In this way you can get access to all the magazines (published after
> 1995). There is no way to convert pdf files to html without losing too much
> information. But as Eli says: why somebody will need it if Acroread is free and
> available for most platforms? (I have it in my Linux box, is a must for people
> working in electronics, all the datasheets are in pdf format).
> 
> About the letter: They just want to charge you according to the number of people
> that will have access to the material.

I'm not sure I follow you guys.  The aim is to provide the std for *all*
the djgpp-workers so they can peek at the stds when need it.  I don't
see what is the gain by giving it to a few(2/3) individuals, this is the
current situation, we are not improving anything, unless you want
to buy for 50 persons.

??


And PDF truly sucks, have you ever try to work with a 300 pages document
in acroread .. pfff ... not very partical for day-to-day use.
PDF may be great for printing but not to stare blindly all day and
hitting pgUp/pgDn.

In counterpart, the Unix98 (Solo) is wonderfull, full index
listing of the all the functions, just click. Great navigation
and good use of the browser nothing fancy.


-- 
au revoir, alain
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