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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 20:53:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>
To: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
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Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? 
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Steve, 

I think you may have missed the point. You have an excellent operating
system and documentation because of the volunteer efforts many people.
They do this because they want to share -- not because they owe us 
or are obligated to kiss our butts.

If you are unhappy with what the many volunteers in this project provide,
why not contribute your efforts and make availabe what you think we should
have?

-- Jay

On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Steve Howe wrote:

->
->i think everyone is missing the point!
->no one is looking for instructions on how-to 
->generate an ASCII Handbook on a BSD machine!
->
->some of us wish an ASCII version was available
->
->1. for DOS users that can't "col -b" and 
->"more" with highlights they don't have, etc.
->
->2. for people they don't like clicking around 
->HTML pages for little bits (hard to print also).
->
->3. for people that aren't doing postscript.
->
->i think it is rude when people are FORCED to make do
->with proprietary/non-ASCII formats.  the government,
->for example forces you to have MS Word to read
->their docs or apply for some things.
->
->ASCII can be read by any computer/OS,
->and i think all docs should contain at
->least one ASCII version.
->-------------------------------------------------
-> FingerPrint BA09868C 1B995204 58410FD3 A5E7B2DA
-> http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/way/7747
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