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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 11:51:28 -0500
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From: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org>
Subject: Re: Simpler restructured dir.txi
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At 07:02 AM 3/10/02 -0600, you wrote:
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 >I think this is a good idea.  How about a "Package index" and a
 >"Utility index" (alphabetical is implied, IMHO).  My preference
 >would be to have these as the very first entries in dir.txi,
 >followed by the usual dir.txi contents.

I *like* the idea of a "Package index"!  I'll put one into the next 
version.  And if others also think an alphabetical section for the 
individual utilities will help, I can do that, too.

I'll probably leave the DJGPP stuff as the very first entries, 
though.  This makes more sense, since those are the things folk are 
likely to need first when they begin using DJGPP.

However, I would argue that the "Utility index" belongs at the end, 
rather than at the beginning.  That way, the most general information 
is at the beginning (DJGPP stuff, Package index), more detail is in the 
middle (Major package/functional category sections), then finally the 
most detail is at the end (long, hard-to-read list of individual 
utilities).
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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)

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