From: ANTHONY APPLEYARD To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 09:17:47 GMT Subject: Re: Docs: why not plain understandable ascii? Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Someone wrote:- >Hello! Where can I ftp '/djgpp/src/gdb-4.12/gdb/doc/*.tex' in '*.ps' or '*.dvi' format? ( I have some problems with TeX under dos :-( ) Aaron Ucko replied on Wed 16 Nov 1994 20:03:55 -0500 (CDT) (Subject: Re: Docs):- > What sort of problem? gTeX works fine for me ... If you _really_ need them and still have problems, I can run TeX myself and uuencode the dvi's, but that sounds rather tedious, so I'd rather not unless strictly necessary. Everybody hasn't got all these funny word processing packages! Can't this info be sent out as plain legible ascii!?!? djgpp is enough to cope with without having to wrestle also with the intricacies of the Tex system and its various dialects. Often people lack the money or the hard disk room or the need for these word processing packages. I get tired of having to manually edit Tex matter into readable ascii text. Today an important article (not about Gnu C) circulated by email came in Microsoft Word and I had to manually edit it into ascii, since I have Word Perfect 5 for DOS and not Microsoft Word and I don't use Windows unless I have to.