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Phil:

By the way:

Ghostscript and Ghostview are nice because they allow you to magnify any
point on the page by moving your mouse to the point and hoilding down
the button.  This would certainly help for visual impaired.  It is
available for Windows 3.x, dos, and Unix for free....

Thanks,

-Mike  

Philip Hall wrote:
> 
> I have a suggestion for the documentation which now seems to
> be available only in post script.
> 
> It would be extremely helpful if these documents could be made
> available in plain text format, or some other ascii format.
> 
> The reson for this is, many people with visual impairments
> can ot access a post script document, but can read an ascii file, either
> plain ascii, or html.
> 
> An example of one of these documents is the document in the
> tutorial section, dealing with FreeBSD device driver writing.
> 
> If you have any questions or comments for me, my E-mail address is:
> phall@gate.net
> 
> Thank you for your time, and for the many other accessable documents.
> 
> phil