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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user
Date: 2 Jun 1995 23:14:51 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) wrote:
] From my experience I would have to say
] that FreeBSD is not presently in a state
] where it could reasonably be recommended to a non-guru --
] as Linux can, in my view.
]
] May I suggest that something like the Linux guides (in LaTeX)
] and the Linux HOWTO documents
] is urgently needed by, and for, FreeBSD ?
From my experience I would have to say
that LaTeX s not presently in a state
where it could reasonably be recommended to a non-guru --
as WWW can, in my view.
http://www.freebsd.org:80/How/handbook/
Since these are in SGML and the SGML source is directly downloadable
an insane (but only moderately motivated) person could use the
"sgmlfmt" utility (also provided) to format the docs into (retch!)
LaTeX (for "easy" printing, I suppose).
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.