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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user Date: 3 Jun 1995 01:55:37 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3qobu9$rmf@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3qo61b$aq7@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes: > 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). How else are you meant to print this document ? [You imply that LaTeX is difficult, so I imagine you must have a simple way of printing it.] How can you view it ? [The "handbook" consists of a large number of *.sgml files.] I'm genuinely baffled by this approach to documentation. Obviously I am not on the FreeBSD wavelength. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland