Re: Attracting newbies

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:46:09PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/06/07 21:26, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:09:30PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:

Pdf can have internal links as well as a table of contents that one can
click on. On the other hand, one needs X to read it and a postscript
capable printer to print it (yes I know...).

Know what? That you don't need a PS printer to print PS & PDF files?

That I'm the only one left on the planet with a printer that right now
can't print ps even with gs-esp. Its a mechanical problem with the
printer. Its 26 years old.

links2 is your friend. If a penguin pops up on your console during
the boot phase, then you can read graphic web pages using:
$ links2 -g

No penguin.

I just read the policy manual and other than packages _must_ provide a
man page, debian is moving towards all documentation being in html.
Documentation in other formats may be provided in addition at the
package maintainer's discretion.

I'm downloading debiandoc-doc now so I can see what's up with it.

Doug.


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