Date: Thu, 1 Apr 93 08:59:33 +0200
From: Peter Rojsel <Peter DOT Rojsel AT maxlab DOT lu DOT se>
Subject: Re: Another Lost One
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

>>>I downloaded the gas-doc.tar.Z the other night.  As I feared everything was
>>>in TEX format.  
>>> ...

>>One of the best (and free) MSDOS ports of TeX is "emtex".
>> ...
>>			    Note that any installation of TeX is a major
>>undertaking as it is a complex system with many interlocking pieces, and
>>you really need to be serious about it before starting down that path.
>
>There ought to be an archive of documentation for djgpp in Postscript and
>plain ASCII form (and for FSF software in general.)  Can anyone provide
>space for such a thing?  It's probably best for the archive maintainer to 
>have TeX, etc., for the necessary conversions.

VERY GOOD IDEA!!!
I do support the idea about GCC documentation in more than one format. 
It will be nice to have a plain ASCII text to read on the screen, but 
the nice possibilities that TeX gives when printed is too good to just 
leave out. I, who never succeeded in installing Tex on any computer would 
very much appreciate if there also is files in postscript ready to send 
to the printer. A printed manual is easier to read while you have your 
computer screen full of c-code or debuggers (and a manual can be read 
in bed if you have trouble getting asleep :-).

Peter, <Peter AT maxlab DOT lu DOT se>