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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Form Doc's
Summary: Geez ,Greg!
Message-ID: <4743e81c.14a1f@force.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 89 15:19:57 GMT
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In article <2400@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>, gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
> In article <473eecf4.14a1f@force.UUCP> covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
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> >Hey, it doesn't seem like many folks like the TeX docs to form.
> 
> Yes, if only some of them said it politely, then they could get them
> in another form. However, if all we have is a doc in TeX, how else do
> you propose to distribute them?
> 
> >Must be some form of Elitest mentatlity to post docs to a program
> >in a format that 99% of the people don't use.
> 
> Jos did you a FAVOR by translating these docs, and all you do is throw
> shit at him? How about "THANKS, JOS!!" for translating them in the first
> place?
> 
> >Oh well, it could have been done in nroff, which at least most UN*X
> >people have access to.
> 
> If you have Unix, you can get TeX for free. If you have an ST, you can
> get TeX for free. If you ASKED, probably someone would gladly print
> you a copy of the FORM docs. If you throw shit on them, however, they
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> might not want to do it...
> 
> ------
> Greg Lindahl

Geez, Greg do you have a problem with me, personally, or what? I wasn't really
complaining, at least not as vocally as others. But you flame me and no one else.

What gives with you??

As far as Saying Thanks to a poster, just how often do you think that that
happens?? Not often from what I see on this newsgroup. So, I don't think that
you will see many thanks for a post that for most folks here in the USA could
have been written in German or Latin for as much good as it does us.

Agreed it may have fancy math symbols, but still the ASCII TeX file could have
been posted instead of the binary .dvi file. Then at least we, those w/o TeX,
could have looked at some of the material.

So quite flaming me, huh buddy?



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