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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user
Date: 3 Jun 1995 01:34:54 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3qobu9$rmf@bell.maths.tcd.ie>,
Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>How else are you meant to print this document ?
>[You imply that LaTeX is difficult,
>so I imagine you must have a simple way of printing it.]
>How can you view it ?
>[The "handbook" consists of a large number of *.sgml files.]

This is not in place yet, but for 2.1 there will be HTML versions
of al the SGML versions provided, and a built-in Lynx browser for
reading/printing them.

>I'm genuinely baffled by this approach to documentation.
>Obviously I am not on the FreeBSD wavelength.

No, you're just looking at interim bits.. :-)

						Jordan