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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:2765 comp.os.386bsd.apps:1524 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!biosci!parc!rocksanne!gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com!not-for-mail From: leisner@gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner 25733) Subject: Re: Dr. Dobb's 386BSD Reference CD-ROM: Fraud? Message-ID: <1994Dec4.181115.3507@news.wrc.xerox.com> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.apps Lines: 32 Sender: news@news.wrc.xerox.com Reply-To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Organization: xerox X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 941128BETA PL0] References: <D04Lwp.73z@lemis.de> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 18:11:15 GMT Its interesting they CD-roms have window help files... on a unix system (infomagic does the same thing with the Linux HOWTO docs, I haven't view the October stuff on windows...) There are tools (which run in windows?) to convert help files to (I think) rtf, and then you can convert the rtf to ps and print...its not trivial and a royal pain... I once did it, I haven't recently... It seems you can't convert a help file intact into a document in winhelp (pathetic). I like to print out everything so I can see it, then use an interactive medium after I know what's there (I don't start reading interactively...). Winhelp just lets you print out a topic... Thanks for the report on the DDJ CD -- I was under the impression the articles would be in postscript and ascii files... Wine can't seem to view help files yet, when it can, you can use this... The price of CDs is really interesting...but compared to something like Minix, this is a bargain... -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom I don't make many mistakes, but when I make one, its a beaut Fiorello LaGuardia