Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 12:23:14 -0400
From: aj486 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Lawney Rosebrook)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Old problem
Reply-To: aj486 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca

I have a suggestion that might take some of the frustration out of setting
up DJGPP.

How about including a WP/text version of all the documentation.
When I was first getting set up I had a BITCH of a time finding a TEX
program and the final printed document I got was all misformatted and
quite ugly. 

Either that or add a list of instructions at a very patronizing level.
ie
Get this file from here, type this, press this key and your printed
document falls on your lap. Every keystroke and required file clearly stated.

I went nuts playing with TEX and I never want to touch it again, I would
have much prefered my dox in a more standard format.

I would probbably d/l this myself just to get a decent looking doccument
without wasting anymore time on TEX.

The hyper TeX is great but to get a printed doccument is a battle.

Maybe a batch file that would check that all the fonts needed were there
(I think mine weren't) and the program was installed and then print
according to a list of parameters.

Of course this should be in a seperate archive so that people equiped to
handle TeX don't have to look at it.


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