Date:	Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:14:30 -0300
Message-Id:	<1.5.4.16.19961023111054.28c7c15e@dmeasc.rc.ipt.br>
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To:	leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From:	Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject:	Re: Including tutes with DJGPP?

At 08:28 23/10/96 +0800, Leath Muller wrote:
>A lot of questions that come through the mail are easily answered
>questions, but are the sort of queries which don't really belong
>in the faq. Also, a lot of them can be answered through redirection
>to web sites, simple answers posted/mailed etc.
>
>Is it feasible to have a zip file for inclusion with DJGPP which
>contains tutorials on such things as basic inline assembly: accessing
>variables, etc etc. Most of the tutorials would (with permission)
>probably just be tutorials other people have written (such as
>Brennans inline asm tutorial) included in the zip.
>
>It could have the tutorials distributed in info, text and html
>format, and would probably save a lot of mail/news. All Eli would
>have to do is make a pointer in the faq to say grab the tutorial
>zip if someone is having trouble in a certain area, or whatever!
>
>I would be happy to compile such a beast (as I can't program on
>the computers I have access to here at work), and I think it would
>help a lot of beginners learning the basics of DJGPP.
>
>What do you guys think???
>
>Leathal.
>
>

I think is an interesting idea! Also, if we manage to use the feature of
texinfo of being able to generate tex format as well we could have a lot of
stuff for the DJGPP Book project as well!
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