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- From: lotu@wam.umd.edu (Arcadio Alivio Sincero)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Re: Berating the GPM WWW Site
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 14:30:42 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland College Park
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- David Priest (priest@sfu.ca) wrote:
- : Australia must have the slowest connection to "the rest of the world"
- : existing. *WHY* don't you mirror your damned website, so that a fellow
- : can read it at a reasonable pace? And would someone please smack the
- : damned fool who designed the Linux version of the GPM documentation
- : upside the head, hard? It's a severe pain in the ascii to flip back and
- : forth through endless ONE-PARAGRAPH! links.
- : Get a clue, guys. The reality is that you're one a dead-slow connection,
- : and playing silly buggers with yoru website just annoys hell out of
- : anyone who's giving consideration to your product.
-
-
- 'eh? Actually, I do believe GPM is mirrored to a site closer to
- the U.S.. That's where I got my copy of GPM. I forget it 'tho. I found
- the mirror by checking out one of the many Modula-2 related links on the
- Web ... some dude put a link to it on his page.
-
- As for the documentation ... you gotta be kidding me! Unless
- you're speaking of the HTML version, I find the documentation for GPM
- excellent ... especially for the price (free). Really well done. Go get
- your self the PostScript version and a copy of GhostScript and see for
- yourself!
-
- I guess there's just no pleasing some people. Man, you shouldn't
- be complaining considering what you get for the price. The whole GPM
- package for Linux is a rather excellent, IMHO.
-
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