Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:06:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: stuart henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Documenters <doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ps2pdf (was: newbies mailing list) Message-ID: <19980304120645.61525@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980304112605.61351@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 11:26:05AM %2B1100 References: <199803030441.VAA11558@const.> <34FBE0CB.C1697F2D@internationalschool.co.uk> <19980304102052.13296@freebie.lemis.com> <19980304112605.61351@welearn.com.au>
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On Wed, 4 March 1998 at 11:26:05 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 10:20:52AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> 4. It is possible to install groff on DOS. I've never done it, and I >> have no intention of introducing Microsoft to my workspace, but >> people should at least be made aware of the possibility. > > I've never liked the idea of giving something and saying oh, by the way, > you'll have to install something to use this. That's my main objection to > depending on things like PDF and Word for windoze environments. > > If you want people to use particular software you have to supply it and > instructions, and hope that they have the required disk space and permission > to install it, the resources to run it, and the motivation to go to that length. Sure. We do that. It's called FreeBSD. >> BTW, can't you display .html files with Microsoft-based browsers? > > A long thread in an unrelated mailing list recently concluded that to be > as platform independent as possible, HTML files should have names which are > 8.3 and all caps. > > I prepared to install FreeBSD when running OS/2 and hand-renamed all of the > handbook's HTML files and links so I could use them with the then-available > software. I suppose there's not too much objection to supplying a script^H^H^H^H^H^Hbatch file which renames them for you. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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