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At 08:49 PM 3/2/02 +0000, Richard Dawe wrote:
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 >The index you posted looks good to me. But I'd like to see some other 

 >entries for:
 >
 >* the French translation of the FAQ;
 >* bzip2;
 >* GMP, the GNU multi-precision arithmetic library;
 >* gettext and iconv, the GNU internationalisation libraries and 
tools.

Those make good sense to add.

 >Clearly the French FAQ's entry would go just after the English FAQ's
 >entry. bzip2 could go just after gzip's entry. GMP could go in a 'GNU 
C
 >libraries' section, just before the current 'GNU C++ libraries'
 >section. gettext and iconv could go in the programmers' tools 
section,
 >but perhaps they should be in a section of their own.

I agree about gettext/iconv.  Perhaps the section name should be "GNU 
message translation".

 >It would be nice if there was an entry for Perl too, but that doesn't 

 >come with any info docs. Oh well.

No, just "pod" format docs.  I'll check CPAN and see if there's 
anything available, but I tend to doubt it.  perl folk appear to be 
enamored of pod, so I don't know that anyone put together any 
translations for those who might prefer info.
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