Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:24:01 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Zibarev Denis <den AT re DOT tsu DOT tomsk DOT su>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Q: DXE
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On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Zibarev Denis wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> 
> > The DXE feature is among the least-frequently asked issues,
> 
> But, this feature must be mentioned somewhere. I'm not sure that I can
> find useful information about it in FAQ. From another point of view,
> this question (I mean Question 3 from my previous letter) _must_ be
> documented. FAQ says, that I can find some information about subj in
> djtst*.zip, and, there _is_ some information in it. But IMHO the
> utility (DXEGEN) _must_ have a short description of its parameters.

What do you mean by ``_must_''?  DJGPP is free software, so you have
no right to demand anything.  DXE was developed specifically for
DJGPP, and the people who did that didn't provide any documentation
except what the FAQ says.  Please ask any specific questions that you
have (I cannot answer your Question 3, sorry), but if you think that
DXE needs to be documented (I agree with that), the only way to make
it happen is for yourself to sit down and write the docs, then submit
them to DJ Delorie for inclusion in the next release, or make it
available on your site via WWW.

Past experience shows that nothing in DJGPP gets done unless people
with enough motivation and resources sit down and get it done.
Telling that others ought to do it doesn't work.