Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 12:11:50 -0500
From: U-E59264-Osman Buyukisik <buyuk AT c0312 DOT ae DOT ge DOT com>
To: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Docs: why not plain understandable ascii?

>>>>> "ANTHONY" == ANTHONY APPLEYARD <A.APPLEYARD%fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk AT c0228 DOT ae DOT ge DOT com> writes:

    ANTHONY>   Everybody hasn't got all these funny word processing
    ANTHONY> packages! Can't this info be sent out as plain legible
    ANTHONY> ascii!?!? djgpp is enough to cope with without having to

"info" is distributed with djgpp. All the docs are in texinfo which is
read by the info program. Also the TeX and related programs may be
obtained free from the CTAN archives. You just need to supply the
space on your hard disk :)

This thread has been beaten to death some time ago. The docs are
written by (mostly) FSF, and they have chosen TeX/texinfo
system. People have posted postscript files (I dont remember where). 

There is a "detex" program which can get rid off TeX commands and
provide pure ascii (for use in spellchecking TeX files).

Regards,

Osman