From: Paul Koning               1695 <pkoning AT chipcom DOT com>
To: djgpp mailing list <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Docs: why not plain understandable ascii?
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 94 15:04:00 PST
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>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.

If  you install either Emacs or Info, you can read the stuff on-line.  The 
fact that
it's all nicely cross-referenced is a BIG plus.  You can't get that from 
lowest-
common-denominator plain ascii.  Besides, in printed form, plain ascii
documents are barely readable.

>. 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.

You mean it can't import another word processor's format???

     paul