Via: uk.ac.hull; Thu, 24 Feb 1994 13:03:25 +0000
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: Peter A Robinson <P DOT A DOT Robinson AT engineering DOT hull DOT ac DOT uk>
Organization: University of Hull, EDM
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 09:31:59
Subject: Re: documentation on djgpp
Reply-To: P DOT A DOT Robinson AT engineering DOT hull DOT ac DOT uk

Anthony Duben writes:

> 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.

Even if you have a postscript printer, you're limited to printing the 
whole documentation or none at all.

> 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

I'd love this!  I've experimented with TEX to text converters, but 
none of them can cope with the djgpp docs.

> (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?)

It does.  You can get it by gopher at gopher.src.ic.ac.uk, but 
AFAIK you can only print the whole document...

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

Same place as above.

> (d) Documentation in the file format of a generally used word
>     processor (Word for Windows, Word Perfect, Ami Pro?)

Yes, yes, yes!  Or how about a TeX import filter for Word?  Or a DVI 
to Word converter or... anything that allows you to print out 
selected pages, really.

> 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.

Yup.  The TexInfo verison is a big improvement - at least it is now 
possible to consult the docs online, but I would *love* to be able to 
search for keywords with a standard text search program.

Just my 1.5p worth (that's two cents to our American cousins).

Peter.
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