Date:	Sun, 03 Jan 1993 08:10:49 MST
From:	"Bob Hood" <thor AT arrakis DOT denver DOT co DOT us>
To:	mcastle AT mcs213k DOT cs DOT umr DOT edu
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Tex Docs

Believe it or not, mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!cs.umr.edu!mcastle wrote:
> 
> Amazingly enough Donald F. Parsons MD said:
> > How do I get an ASCII printout of tex files like GCC.1 and CPP.1?
> > I have ANSI programs and I am trying to find out how to compile
> > them.  I gather preprocessing is neceaary? Can you give me the steps?
> > Thanks, Don
> 
> For the *.1 files, I recommend the cawf package.  It's a fairly good 
> emulation of nroff.  It can be found on ftp.cc.purdue.edu (128.210.24.1) in 
> pucc/cawf.sh.Z.  Just install and do  'cawf -man gcc.1 > gcc.man'
> 
> Anyone done groff yet?
> 
> For the tex files, you can use demacs and it's info reader mode (hyper
> text method of reading texi files).  There's a stand alone version
> of the makeinfo and info readers on simtel20 in the pd1:<msdos.gnuish>
> directory, but it's real mode only and I image the gcc docs are too
> large for it.  Barring that, you can find someplace that has TeX (or
> install emTeX your self, only takes about 16 megs :-), and get the
> texi2dvi package off of you favorite gnu archive site.  I printed out
> the entire docs for gcc 2.3.x and they took about 360 pages.
> 
> Maybe a standalone texinfo reader would be worth doing? (Well, I do just
> happen to have the source setting on my hard drive *grin* but I think
> it uses termcap commands not curses commands, and so we have to make
> a termcap library *sigh*)

There is another program called deTeX that will dump TeX files to stdout that 
does a fairly good job of formatting.  If nothing else, it makes TeX files 
legible.

Unfortunately, I have forgotten where I got the program from, and my entire
DJGPP installation (where I have the deTeX program) is on a Bernoulli disk
at work, so I can't see if there are any doc files to point to it's location.

If you want, I can uuencode the archived program to you if you cannot locate
it anywhere.  Please specify the archive format you would like (ARJ, ZIP,
LZH, etc.).

Hope that helps!

Bob
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