From: mcastle AT cs DOT umr DOT edu
Subject: Re: Tex Docs
To: DFP10 AT uacsc2 DOT albany DOT edu (Donald F. Parsons MD)
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 5:16:24 CST
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Amazingly enough Donald F. Parsons MD said:
> How do I get an ASCII printout of tex files like GCC.1 and CPP.1?
> I have ANSI programs and I am trying to find out how to compile
> them.  I gather preprocessing is neceaary? Can you give me the steps?
> Thanks, Don

For the *.1 files, I recommend the cawf package.  It's a fairly good 
emulation of nroff.  It can be found on ftp.cc.purdue.edu (128.210.24.1) in 
pucc/cawf.sh.Z.  Just install and do  'cawf -man gcc.1 > gcc.man'

Anyone done groff yet?

For the tex files, you can use demacs and it's info reader mode (hyper
text method of reading texi files).  There's a stand alone version
of the makeinfo and info readers on simtel20 in the pd1:<msdos.gnuish>
directory, but it's real mode only and I image the gcc docs are too
large for it.  Barring that, you can find someplace that has TeX (or
install emTeX your self, only takes about 16 megs :-), and get the
texi2dvi package off of you favorite gnu archive site.  I printed out
the entire docs for gcc 2.3.x and they took about 360 pages.

Maybe a standalone texinfo reader would be worth doing? (Well, I do just
happen to have the source setting on my hard drive *grin* but I think
it uses termcap commands not curses commands, and so we have to make
a termcap library *sigh*)

mrc
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