Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 11:18:47 -0700 (PDT)
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To: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: DJGPP is in WAY too many pieces
Cc: galbiati AT cse DOT ogi DOT edu, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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>Phil Galbiati (galbiati AT cse DOT ogi DOT edu) wrote:
>[deleted]
>: Given the frequency at which people ignore the 6-page long README.1ST
>: file, how many people do you think will read 180 pages of flat-text FAQ?
>: Since there are already HTML versions of both the FAQ and the docs
>: available, why not include the easier-to-navigate HTML versions rather
>: than flat text?  The extra space required for HTML tags would be less than
>: the space required for the info viewer (which seems to frighten newbies
>: anyway), and Web browsers have become pretty much ubiquitous.
>
>The info viewer is required anyway to read the C library reference. I
>personally still prefer to use the flat text format of the FAQ even with
>the hypertext formats available; I don't have a DOS-based HTML viewer and
>for something like the FAQ I prefer to read it (and search it) all at once
>rather than in bits. Maybe other people's opinions are different here.

If people like HTML so much, perhaps *all* the docs should be made available
as HTML. It shouldn't be too hard to convert from Info (in fact I think I've
heard something about a conversion util.) Anything that will encourage
people to read the docs before posting problems here will be an advantage.


Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net