Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 10:44:26 +0900
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: DJGPP AT SUN DOT SOE DOT CLARKSON DOT EDU
Subject: Preprocessor information

Anthony--

     In reply to former criticism of statements by me about use of
   Tex, here is the preprocessor part of the INFO, reformatted and

Thanks for a good job!!  
    I have made it available in

      turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp:/pub/djgpp/doc/preprocessor.txt

The rest of this message is irrelevant to anyone who is not going to
produce formatted docs or the like.

    A caveat, however....  In general, it's not a good idea to post
these things to the list, because (a) it uses bandwidth (not a big
deal IMHO; those who disagree, have you looked at alt.binaries
recently?), (b) there are still people who have small quotas and too
much DJGPP mail can overflow them, and (c) it's not easily available
to those who weren't on the list when you posted (most important,
except to the minority in (b)).  So you should upload (if it's
feasible) or request someone who can upload to do so (if you can't
personally) to

	     omnigate.clarkson.edu:/pub/msdos/djgpp/pub/

and post a very short announcement to djgpp-announce.  You are also
welcome to upload to

		 turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp:/incoming/

and I will move it to an appropriate place.

   edited into ascii 614 lines for e.g. printing out as a paper
   reference copy, since (unless you have two PC's), you can't easily
   read an on-screen online help system while the screen and CPU are
   occupied with a text editor that you are editing a program on!
     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Actually, this is extremely easy.  Just use *macs.  DEmacs, NEmacs,
OEmacs, the various ports of GNU Emacs 19.2* that have been appearing
recently, or JED.  I don't think MicroEmacs or the other real-mode DOS
Emacs will do Info, but they all do multiple buffers and multiple
windows.
    Most modern editors will do multiple buffers/multiple windows.
    Most modern editors at least permit you to push to DOS.
    DESQview and DESQview/X, of course, will allow multiple copies of
editors, Info viewers, and anything else you like to run
simultaneously.
    While it is *easy*, I recognize that there are good reasons for not
using *macs or DV.  If those reasons apply to you, and it is
inconvenient or impossible to do multiple buffers or push to DOS in
your favorite editor, then a hardcopy is a good idea.
    --Steve