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From: kleonard@gvlv1.gvl.unisys.com (Ken Leonard)
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Subject: Re: mh6.6/papers/*
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Date: 12 Mar 90 15:19:44 GMT
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In article <9003080541.AA01212@eng.umd.edu> ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU writes:
* Does anyone out there have Postscript, LP, or nroff versions of
* the papers directory?
* 
* We don't have PhDTeX. When I try compiling with amstex, it bombs
* in so many different ways that I've all but given up.
* 
DITTO!!
Having the documentation for a package/system distributed only in
something like Tex (or tRoff or nRoff or ???) which is _not_ a
part of most folks' way of doing things, which may not even _be_ on a
lot of folks' systems, is a _BITCH_ to deal with!
--
We (and a bunch of others we know) would be (in the end) a lot happier
with less fancy formatting and more usability!
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regardz,
Ken