Date: Wed, 11 May 94 23:11:38 -0400
From: dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: simon AT tesla DOT ee DOT mcgill DOT ca
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: manual

> Is there an ASCII version of the DJGPP manuals? I am having
> trouble TEX-ing the documents and since DJGPP is for DOS,
> maybe it is better to have the documents in a DOS word-processor
> format (word-perfect, Microsoft word, etc). Is the manual 
> available in a word-processor format?

[Maybe this should be a FAQ]

The documents are in TeX because that's what the FSF writes them in.
I wrote libcref in TeX because all the others are in TeX and the info
reader and emacs want info files, which are generated from the TeX
files.

The info versions are more ascii-like, if you strip out some of the
control characters.