From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Mar 5 13:02:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19688 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:02:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hawk.pearson.udel.edu. (hawk.pearson.udel.edu [128.175.64.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA19681 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:02:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alexandr@hawk.pearson.udel.edu) Received: from hawk.pearson.udel.edu by hawk.pearson.udel.edu. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA00460; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:49:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:49:35 -0500 From: alexandr@hawk.pearson.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos) Message-Id: <199803052049.PAA00460@hawk.pearson.udel.edu.> To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Jeremy Lea , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ps2pdf (was: newbies mailing list) Organization: Broken Toys Unlimited Reply-To: alexandr@hawk.pearson.udel.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In Reply to Your Message of Wed, 04 Mar 1998 17: 09:03 PST MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <453.889130974.1@hawk.pearson.udel.edu> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 15:49:35 -0500 From: Jerry Alexandratos : This is the best statement of the issues on the problem of making : the FAQ and the handbook available to new users that I've ever seen. : : I think the doc project should take on as a priority ensuring that : documentation can be easily obtained by Microsoft users before : FreeBSD is installed, and read on the screen and printed, and that : instructions on how to do so are available. I have to agree on this one. I think that maybe just maybe (and please forgive me if I sound blasphemous) we should take a page out of the LinuxDoc project and try to have our documentation available in rtf as well. Give me a moment to don my asbestos cartigan. --Jerry 8) Jerry Alexandratos % - % "Nothing inhabits my (8 8) alexandr@louie.udel.edu % - % thoughts, and oblivion (8 8) alexandr@hawk.pearson.udel.edu % - % drives my desires." (8 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message