Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:59:59 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Mr. Veli Suorsa" <VJSuorsa AT Surfeu DOT Fi>
> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 17:46:46 +0200
> 
> >> C:\DJGPP\DOC
> >> C:\DJGPP\GNU\DOC
> >> C:\DJGPP\GNUDOCS
> >> 
> >> and program's documentation.
> >
> >This is because there's no standard directory in the DJGPP
> >tree for keeping the printed docs.  Different *d.zip
> >packages were prepared by different people, and the above
> >is the result.
> 
> Maybe you should make this "standard directory" ;-)

Maybe.

> 
> Directory of C:\DJGPP\GNUDOCS
> BASH-2   04  <DIR>
> FILUTIL3 16  <DIR>
> GCC-2    952 <DIR>
> - Why g77 / f77 documentation is here?

Because g77 is part of the GCC package.

> - and there are too documentation directories like:
> 
> Directory of C:\DJGPP\FAQ

FAQ is not a documentation directory, it's a directory where all the
files private to the FAQ are held.

> - Please, try to do this info program more user friendly

What's not user-friendly about Info?

> and a direct port to Rhide (if possible).

RHIDE already has an internal Info reader.

> Directory of C:\DJGPP\MAN
> CAT1         <DIR>
> CAT5         <DIR>
> CAT6         <DIR>
> MAN1         <DIR>

This is okay--those are the man-page style docs, the `man' command
needs them there to find them.

> and many programs with own /doc/- subdirectories.

These are the sources of the manuals distributed with each package.
They need to be in each distribution separately.

> P.S. Is it possible to make with Gnu utilities from a .html file a readable
> .txt file and vice versa?

You should be able to find such programs out there.  But I don't
understand why would you need something like that in the first place.
By converting to ASCII you lose the hypertext structure.