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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD Date: 28 Aug 1995 21:25:48 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <41t8oc$c37@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <409iah$inf@galaxy.ucr.edu> <40alp5$psg@agate.berkeley.edu> <413bkc$3t2@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <1995Aug24.222509.28085@state.systems.sa.gov.au> <41ko58$rqh@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <41l9eo$17h@park.uvsc.edu> <41nfbu$sg@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <41ogs7$jui@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes: >] Linux has excellent books as part of the standard distribution; >] FreeBSD does not. >Is there a better utility for pulling physical objects down over >an ethernet? The books didn't transfer, even though I got the >"standard distribution". I was referring to the Linux Documentation Project (LDP), eg ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/LDP (This is included in all Linux CD-ROMs I have seen. I think it is also included in the Slackware distribution, probably in diskettes 'y'.) >] [There was a rather similar issue with TeX/LaTeX. >] There used to be many other macro packages similar to LaTeX, >] some of them I've no doubt as good if not better. >] But LaTeX came with a comprehensive manual, >] which at the time was part of the package -- >] now you have to pay for it -- >] and that in my view was why LaTeX has buried its competitors.] >That would be other markup languages, like roff, troff, HTML, >and PostScript? HP shipping that LaTeX printer yet? NCSA and >Netscape putting out those LaTeX aware browsers yet? You misunderstood my remark. I was referring -- as I think is pretty clear -- to TeX macro packages, and the reason for the success of LaTeX among these. I wasn't referring to the success or lack of it of TeX/LaTeX as opposed to t/nroff, etc. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland