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:	Fri, 18 Nov 1994 10:39:47 GMT
Subject:	Tex etc (info file modes)

To my message amout Tex v. ascii etc in info files, various people replied:-
  > From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
  > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 12:32:10 JST

  > Seriously, everybody *does* have TeX, at least in the Unix world. ...

  But many people have PC's, which use MS-DOS, not UNIX.

  > I think somebody who goes by the handle of ANTHONY APPLEYARD just
volunteered to do ...

  It was me who wrote that long INFO file that was supplied with djgpp before
it had the present Tex-like info help system. When I wanted to look for a
topic, I read the INFO file with my emacs and searched for key text strings.

  > Doesn't WP 5 import MS Word files? The flyer I got (years ago) said it
did. ...

  It doesn't. I have just tried my WP (WP 5.1 for DOS) on that Microsoft Word
file that came to me in the email.
  ............................................
  > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 18:44:27 +0100
  > From: Thomas Eifert <EIFERT AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
  > Subject: Re: Docs: why not plain understandable ascii?

  > ... 3) fully featured TEX (without all style-docs, metafont etc. needs
about 7 mb

  Until I got my new PC recently, 7 megabytes WAS a lot of space.

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