From: Paul Harness <gapa83 AT udcf DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk>
Subject: Re: documentation on djgpp 
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 10:20:31 +0000 (GMT)

> Anthony Duben writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Even if you have a postscript printer, you're limited to printing the 
> whole documentation or none at all.
>
This is not true, you can select any pages you want with Ghostview.

> 
> > 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
> 
> I'd love this!  I've experimented with TEX to text converters, but 
> none of them can cope with the djgpp docs.
> 
emTeX works great with all GNU docs in my experience

> > (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?)
> 
> It does.  You can get it by gopher at gopher.src.ic.ac.uk, but 
> AFAIK you can only print the whole document...
> 
See above

> > (c) Readily available Tex -- (Where does one get EmTex?)
> 
> Same place as above.
> 
> > (d) Documentation in the file format of a generally used word
> >     processor (Word for Windows, Word Perfect, Ami Pro?)
> 
> Yes, yes, yes!  Or how about a TeX import filter for Word?  Or a DVI 
> to Word converter or... anything that allows you to print out 
> selected pages, really.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yup.  The TexInfo verison is a big improvement - at least it is now 
> possible to consult the docs online, but I would *love* to be able to 
> search for keywords with a standard text search program.
> 
> Just my 1.5p worth (that's two cents to our American cousins).
> 
> Peter.
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