Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 16:44:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Docs: why not plain understandable ascii?
To: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>  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 <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU> 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

TeX files _are_, except in special cases, entirely ASCII, unlike those of most
word processors, so they can be easily read without TeX (and giving more
information than straight ASCII).  If you really object, you can always use
detex.

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