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From: leisner@gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner 25733)
Subject: Re: Dr. Dobb's 386BSD Reference CD-ROM: Fraud?
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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
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