Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 00:50:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Phil Galbiati <galbiati AT cse DOT ogi DOT edu>
To: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP is in WAY too many piece
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On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, Chris Croughton wrote:
>
> Phil Galbiati wrote:
> 
> > 1) Converting README.1ST to HTML, and including a Table of
> >    Contents at the top.  I think that people are more prone to
> >    poke around with their web browsers than with their text
> >    editors.
> 
> As long as it's in both formats.  Some people may use a web
> browser for FTP (some people use one for mail - oops!) but 
> certainly not all.  And once it's on the home machine it's
> more common to load a file into a text editor (or Windows
> Notepad) than to run up a web browser for it.

If you want to use an editor to read it, please feel free.  The only
difference between the flat text readme and the HTML readme would be a few
lines which contain HTML tags, so frankly, I see absolutely no reason to
keep two formats.  Besides, if a newbie sees one file called "readme", he
is more likely to read it than if he sees two.


> > 2) Including a copy of the converted README.HTM in at least one
> >    (if not all) of the "required" binary zips.
> 
> I'll extend this.  I'd like to see both README.* and an 
> INSTALL.TXT in all of the zip files.  The GNU source 
> distributions do this already.  The INSTALL.TXT need not be
> large, just a reminder of using -d on PKUNZIP and where
> to install it (for instance the code DJGPP stuff needs to be
> in the DJGPP root directory while some other things like sources
> can be anywhere).

Ummmmm..... you want to put the unzipping instructions inside the zip 
files?????

> > 4) Posting the Weekly mini-FAQ twice per week rather than once,
> 
> I'd rather it wasn't much more frequent, but I can live with it
> twice weekly...

If the second posting of the mini-FAQ prevents only one newbie post per
week, then it is probably a break-even proposition in terms of bandwidth,
and a significant savings in terms of labor.

--Phil Galbiati