Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 08:10:49 MST From: "Bob Hood" To: mcastle AT mcs213k DOT cs DOT umr DOT edu Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Re: Tex Docs Believe it or not, mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!cs.umr.edu!mcastle wrote: > > 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: > 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*) There is another program called deTeX that will dump TeX files to stdout that does a fairly good job of formatting. If nothing else, it makes TeX files legible. Unfortunately, I have forgotten where I got the program from, and my entire DJGPP installation (where I have the deTeX program) is on a Bernoulli disk at work, so I can't see if there are any doc files to point to it's location. If you want, I can uuencode the archived program to you if you cannot locate it anywhere. Please specify the archive format you would like (ARJ, ZIP, LZH, etc.). Hope that helps! Bob -- Bob Hood thor AT arrakis DOT denver DOT co DOT us H: 303-986-7127 W: 303-623-2180 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not an expert, but I play one at work....