From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Mar 3 17:38:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15769 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 17:38:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA15737; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 17:38:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA10283; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:06:46 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA20527; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:06:46 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980304120645.61525@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:06:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Sue Blake Cc: stuart henderson , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Documenters Subject: Re: ps2pdf (was: newbies mailing list) References: <199803030441.VAA11558@const.> <34FBE0CB.C1697F2D@internationalschool.co.uk> <19980304102052.13296@freebie.lemis.com> <19980304112605.61351@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19980304112605.61351@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 11:26:05AM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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