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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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