From:	ANTHONY APPLEYARD <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date:	Thu, 17 Nov 1994 09:17:47 GMT
Subject:	Re: Docs: why not plain understandable ascii?
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

  Someone wrote:-
  >Hello! Where can I ftp '/djgpp/src/gdb-4.12/gdb/doc/*.tex' in '*.ps' or
'*.dvi' format? ( I have some problems with TeX under dos :-( )

  Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU> replied on Wed 16 Nov 1994 20:03:55
-0500 (CDT) (Subject: Re: Docs):-
  > What sort of problem? gTeX works fine for me ... If you _really_ need them
and still have problems, I can run TeX myself and uuencode the dvi's, but that
sounds rather tedious, so I'd rather not unless strictly necessary.

  Everybody hasn't got all these funny word processing packages! Can't this
info be sent out as plain legible ascii!?!? djgpp is enough to cope with
without having to wrestle also with the intricacies of the Tex system and its
various dialects. Often people lack the money or the hard disk room or the
need for these word processing packages. I get tired of having to manually
edit Tex matter into readable ascii text. Today an important article (not
about Gnu C) circulated by email came in Microsoft Word and I had to manually
edit it into ascii, since I have Word Perfect 5 for DOS and not Microsoft Word
and I don't use Windows unless I have to.

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