From: "Josef Spangler" To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 13:49:04 MET-1 Subject: Re: documentation on djgpp > > > > Is it not true that you need a Postscript cartridge in order > > to run off Postscript files on an HP Laserjet printer? If you > > do not have one, you are out of luck. > > > Yep. > > > The problem of having documentation in readable form is not an > > inconsequential problem. It would seem to me that some of > > the following would be useful -- > > (a) ASCII text versions of the documentation > > (b) PostScript interpreter to run off Postscript documentation > > on the more humble printers that do not have built in Postscript. > > (Is this not what Ghostscript is supposed to do? If so, where > > do you get a version that runs on an MS-DOS machine?) > > Ghostview for windows is best, as its easier to use than Ghostscript. > You can get it from simtel20, in the directory postscrp. > > > (c) Readily available Tex -- (Where does one get EmTex?) > > In the UK, try ftp.tex.ac.uk/pub/archive. In the US I think you can > get emTeX from sun.soe.clarkson.edu/pub/tex, use archie for more a more > suitable site. > > > (d) Documentation in the file format of a generally used word > > processor (Word for Windows, Word Perfect, Ami Pro?) > > > > On the one hand, I am aware that gnu-djgpp for ms-dos is a > > UN*X oriented port of the gnu compiler, but it is to be run > > on ms-dos machines on which users can be expected to have a > > normal complement of MS-DOS/Windows tools and applications. > > Guy come on. Take the whole thing and not only one. Try out emTeX and dvips and dviwin and Ghostscript/Ghostview and Gnuplot and ... They are all very good and they are FREE! You will be excited! > Come on ! The guys at GNU and DJ etc provide these things for FREE. If > you're not happy then you could always lend a hand .... or go and pay > for exactly what you want. The choice is yours. > > > > > ********************************************************************** > > > > Anthony J. Duben > > Southeast Missouri State University > > Computer Science Department, Mail Stop 6800 > > 1 University Plaza > > Cape Girardeau MO 63701-4799 > > voice: (314) 651-2194 > > FAX: (314) 651-2791 > > bitnet: C867BUC AT SEMOVM > > internet: C867BUC AT SEMOVM DOT SEMO DOT EDU > > > > ********************************************************************** > > > > -- > Paul Harness, | Internet: gapa83 AT udcf DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk > Department of Physics and Astronomy, | > University of Glasgow, | Tel +44-41-339-8855 ext 8359 > Glasgow, G12 8QQ, SCOTLAND. | Fax +44-41-334-9029 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Josef Spangler Phone: (+49) 941/943-4873 Rechenzentrum Fax: (+49) 941/943-4857 Universitaet Regensburg Mail: js AT rzi DOT ngate DOT uni-regensburg DOT de 93040 Regensburg, Germany X400: spangler AT vax1 DOT rz DOT uni-regensburg DOT d400 DOT de