Date:	Thu, 24 Feb 1994 11:34:12 -0600
From:	Young U Ryu <ryoung AT utdallas DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: documentation on djgpp
To:	Peter A Robinson <P DOT A DOT Robinson AT engineering DOT hull DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

On Thu, 24 Feb 1994, Peter A Robinson wrote:

> 
> > 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.
> 
> Even if you have a postscript printer, you're limited to printing the 
> whole documentation or none at all.

That's not true. There is a program:

	psselect

which allows you to select centain pages in a ps file
and create another one. It comes with other useful postscript
goodies, such as pstops (used for 2up, 4up etc.), psbook, etc.

I got the source codes from, I guess ftp.shsu.edu, and compiled
using DJGPP.

> 
> > 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
> 
> I'd love this!  I've experimented with TEX to text converters, but 
> none of them can cope with the djgpp docs.
> 

Have you tried dvitty, dvi2tty, or dvispell (of emTeX)?

> (d) Documentation in the file format of a generally used word
> >     processor (Word for Windows, Word Perfect, Ami Pro?)
> 
> Yes, yes, yes!  Or how about a TeX import filter for Word?  Or a DVI 
> to Word converter or... anything that allows you to print out 
> selected pages, really.

There is a utility dvi2rtf which converts dvi files to rtf files.
Most sophisticated PC word processors (such as Word, WP, etc.)
can import rtf files.
I guess, again, it is available from ftp.shsu.edu.

> 
> Yup.  The TexInfo verison is a big improvement - at least it is now 
> possible to consult the docs online, but I would *love* to be able to 
> search for keywords with a standard text search program.

TeXInfo was created to provide on-line documents, with nice
searching features. Once used to it, you may *love* it ...

Young

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