From: fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us
Message-Id: <199606140148.VAA06919@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
Subject: Re: A more readable faq???
To: leathm AT gbrmpa DOT gov DOT au (Leath Muller)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 21:48:10 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <199606132321.JAA00748@gbrmpa.gov.au> from "Leath Muller" at Jun 14, 96 09:21:19 am
Content-Type: text
Content-Length: 2387      

Thinking furiously, Leath Muller wrote:
> > Why don't you read the Info version of the FAQ with info.exe?  It has a 
> > search command.  The search strategy should be this:
> > 	* Go to one of the 2 indices.
> > 	* Use `s' (search) command to search for the word(s) pertinent to 
> > your problem, or just browse through the index (it's organized in 
> > alphabetic order) and look up the issue you are interested in.
> > 	* Use `m' (menu-item) command to go to the section which 
> > references the issue.
> 
> Well, this is good, and how I view most of my docs, except for someone who is
> new to this sort of thing. For you and myself, this is simple, and anything
> we dont know, we just simply look up. For someone who doesnt have a clue
> this isnt as abvious.

While GNU's info program works, I agree with Leath that it's anything but
friendly. No flames, please! I find nothing about it to be intuitive,
but I muddle through anyway, since it's the only way to read the DJGPP
docs, and for some reason more and more packages are being released with
only info files for documentation.

Fred

PS
While this is even MORE off topic, I'll say it anyway:
What I'm finding that I DO like, in terms of a documentation reader, is
the way the on-line documenation is done in Elvis 2.0 (still in beta, at
the moment). It's all in HTML, with highlighted words/phrases that are
links to some other portion of the document, and Elvis understands
enough HTML to be able to format and display (and print, too, if you
wish) that particular subset of HTML. Anyway, just put the cursor on one
of those highlighted thingies and hit ENTER, voila! you're there.

And I was able to compile the latest beta (2.0p) with DJGPP 2.0
with only the slightest of hacking at the sources. While it's somewhat
large, it's actually not quite as big as the one compiled with MSC 5.1,
and if compiled with -O2 it is visibly faster.
-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 .----    Fred Smith    /                        Office: fred AT computrition DOT com 
( /__  ,__.   __   __ /  __   : /                                 508-663-2524 
 /    /  /   /__) /  /  /__) .+'           Home: fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us 
/    /  (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__                                 617-438-5471 
-------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 ---------------------------------