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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD
Date: 28 Aug 1995 21:25:48 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:

>] Linux has excellent books as part of the standard distribution;
>] FreeBSD does not.

>Is there a better utility for pulling physical objects down over
>an ethernet?  The books didn't transfer, even though I got the
>"standard distribution".  

I was referring to the Linux Documentation Project (LDP),
eg ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/LDP
(This is included in all Linux CD-ROMs I have seen.
I think it is also included in the Slackware distribution,
probably in diskettes 'y'.)


>] [There was a rather similar issue with TeX/LaTeX.
>] There used to be many other macro packages similar to LaTeX,
>] some of them I've no doubt as good if not better.
>] But LaTeX came with a comprehensive manual,
>] which at the time was part of the package --
>] now you have to pay for it --
>] and that in my view was why LaTeX has buried its competitors.]

>That would be other markup languages, like roff, troff, HTML,
>and PostScript?  HP shipping that LaTeX printer yet?  NCSA and
>Netscape putting out those LaTeX aware browsers yet?

You misunderstood my remark.
I was referring -- as I think is pretty clear --
to TeX macro packages,
and the reason for the success of LaTeX among these.
I wasn't referring to the success or lack of it of TeX/LaTeX 
as opposed to t/nroff, etc.


-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland