Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2002/03/10/11:39:55
At 07:52 AM 3/10/02 -0500, CBFalconer wrote:
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>It certainly looks good to me. Too bad your reader spoils the
>effect by wrapping lines (see above). Netscape doesn't wrap if
>you paste as comments.
<*Sigh*> I know. I've avoided Netscape mail in the past because I
thought it could not send just plain text messages, that it always
produced html/mime format. I'll check it out, thanks.
>A few minor comments:
>
>In the misc section especially, some things belong under multiple
>sub-classifications. There should be a section for file
>compression, which should include bzip, and the executable
>compressor (forget its name, bzh or something like that), not to
>mention zip and unzip.
Not a bad point. If there is more than one compression package that
actually have info docs, I'll do that.
>Is there a section for editors? If so, vim probably should
>appear.
Yes, under "Miscellaneous GNU utilities"/"Editing files". If vim has
info docs, I'll put it there.
>I like the references to packages, so that if the user doesn't
>have the capability s/he/it immediately knows how to get it.
OK, that's two votes (yours and Eli's) for package references. I can
see the help they provide, especially for newbies. I won't complain
about them any more.
But if more GNU packages start using @dircategory/@direntry
consistently, it will be more and more difficult to maintain dir.txi
with this information, over time. I guess when that happens it will be
time to address the status of dir.txi more directly.
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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org)
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