From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 29 3:23:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from firewall2.lehman.com (firewall.Lehman.COM [192.147.65.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D4E415431; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 03:23:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nclayton@lehman.com) Received: from relay.messaging-svcs2.lehman.com by firewall2.lehman.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id GAA24861; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 06:22:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from lonmailhost.lehman.com by relay.messaging-svcs2.lehman.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA17941; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 06:22:24 -0500 (EST) Received: by lonmailhost.lehman.com (SMI-8.6/Lehman Bros. V1.5) id MAA20182; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:22:23 +0100 Message-ID: <19990329122223.D14492@lehman.com> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:22:23 +0100 From: nclayton@lehman.com To: Brian Feldman Cc: Kris Kennaway , Nik Clayton , current@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook DocBook cutover complete References: <19990329105741.L23968@lehman.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Feldman on Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:01:45AM -0500 Organization: Lehman Brothers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:01:45AM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: > > Word .doc support is in the pipeline as well, probably for the end of > > this week too (I've now given some money to the evil empire so I can > > test the output myself). > > Why? We can use StarOffice 5.0x, after all. * Not if you're on a 2.2-stable system. Don't mock, because I still am, until I find the time to upgrade. At least, I could never get it to work solidly for any length of time. I know there have been updates, but there's only so many times I'm prepared to download it. * People who haven't yet switched to using FreeBSD can get a reasonably good printed copy of the documentation (at the moment just the Handbook, but eventually all the docs) on a Windows platform. * My accountant likes various bits and pieces to be entered in to their home grown Access DB. So I needed to get hold of Office anyway (and as an aside, the ODBC driver for Postgres works very nicely). > > Next on the list will be whatever internal format the Palm Pilot uses. > > I imagine this won't be too useful for the Handbook, but will probably > > be quite handy for the FAQ. . . > > Do you mean the Memo format or the Doc format? I hope you mean Doc... It > might not even be worth it to do this, since a very nice, fast browser > (Palmscape) has been around for a while on the Palm, and an offline browser > called Plucker. I don't know yet, I need to get a Pilot :-) I'm open to recommendations, and/or pointers to specifications for the format. And if there are any programmers out there looking for something to do, this could be quite a nice task. N -- --+==[ Systems Administrator, Year 2000 Test Lab, Lehman Brothers, Inc. ]==+-- --+==[ 1 Broadgate, London, EC2M 7HA 0171-601-0011 x5514 ]==+-- --+==[ Year 2000 Testing: It's about time. . . ]==+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message