From: Paul Harness <gapa83 AT udcf DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk>
Subject: Re: documentation on djgpp
To: C867BUC AT SEMOVM DOT BITNET (Anthony J. Duben)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 17:48:42 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)

> 
> Is it not true that you need a Postscript cartridge in order
> to run off Postscript files on an HP Laserjet printer?  If you
> do not have one, you are out of luck.
>
Yep.
 
> The problem of having documentation in readable form is not an
> inconsequential problem.  It would seem to me that some of
> the following would be useful --
> (a) ASCII text versions of the documentation
> (b) PostScript interpreter to run off Postscript documentation
>     on the more humble printers that do not have built in Postscript.
>     (Is this not what Ghostscript is supposed to do?  If so, where
>      do you get a version that runs on an MS-DOS machine?)

Ghostview for windows is best, as its easier to use than Ghostscript.
You can get it from simtel20, in the directory postscrp. 

> (c) Readily available Tex -- (Where does one get EmTex?)

In the UK, try ftp.tex.ac.uk/pub/archive. In the US I think you can
get emTeX from sun.soe.clarkson.edu/pub/tex, use archie for more a more
suitable site.

> (d) Documentation in the file format of a generally used word
>     processor (Word for Windows, Word Perfect, Ami Pro?)
>
> On the one hand, I am aware that gnu-djgpp for ms-dos is a
> UN*X oriented port of the gnu compiler, but it is to be run
> on ms-dos machines on which users can be expected to have a
> normal complement of MS-DOS/Windows tools and applications.
> 
Come on ! The guys at GNU and DJ etc provide these things for FREE. If
you're not happy then you could always lend a hand .... or go and pay
for exactly what you want. The choice is yours. 

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