From:	"Josef Spangler" <Josef DOT Spangler AT rzi DOT ngate DOT uni-regensburg DOT de>
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date:	Thu, 24 Feb 1994 13:49:04 MET-1
Subject:	Re: documentation on djgpp

> > 
> > Is it not true that you need a Postscript cartridge in order
> > to run off Postscript files on an HP Laserjet printer?  If you
> > do not have one, you are out of luck.
> >
> Yep.
>  
> > The problem of having documentation in readable form is not an
> > inconsequential problem.  It would seem to me that some of
> > the following would be useful --
> > (a) ASCII text versions of the documentation
> > (b) PostScript interpreter to run off Postscript documentation
> >     on the more humble printers that do not have built in Postscript.
> >     (Is this not what Ghostscript is supposed to do?  If so, where
> >      do you get a version that runs on an MS-DOS machine?)
> 
> Ghostview for windows is best, as its easier to use than Ghostscript.
> You can get it from simtel20, in the directory postscrp. 
> 
> > (c) Readily available Tex -- (Where does one get EmTex?)
> 
> In the UK, try ftp.tex.ac.uk/pub/archive. In the US I think you can
> get emTeX from sun.soe.clarkson.edu/pub/tex, use archie for more a more
> suitable site.
> 
> > (d) Documentation in the file format of a generally used word
> >     processor (Word for Windows, Word Perfect, Ami Pro?)
> >
> > On the one hand, I am aware that gnu-djgpp for ms-dos is a
> > UN*X oriented port of the gnu compiler, but it is to be run
> > on ms-dos machines on which users can be expected to have a
> > normal complement of MS-DOS/Windows tools and applications.
> > 

Guy come on. Take the whole thing and not only one. Try out emTeX and
dvips and dviwin and Ghostscript/Ghostview and Gnuplot and ... 
They are all very good and they are FREE! You will be excited!

> Come on ! The guys at GNU and DJ etc provide these things for FREE. If
> you're not happy then you could always lend a hand .... or go and pay
> for exactly what you want. The choice is yours. 
>
> > 
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