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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: gcc/os2 docs
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.192102.10767@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 19:21:02 GMT
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- In article <grendel.716224537@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu> grendel@cis.ksu.edu (Stephen Spencer) writes:
- >What format are the gcc docs in for OS/2? IOW, how can I convert them to
- >ASCII again :)
-
- The docs are in TexInfo format. I believe you can download them in
- ASCII format as well. Here's what you do with them:
-
- 1) You can print them. Using a TeX formatting package (like emTeX for
- OS/2) and the Texinfo header file, you can convert these to a
- device-independant (.dvi) file. This can then be converted into a
- PostScript (.PS) document or some other printer-specific format.
-
- 2) You can make a hypertext document from them. Using Gnu-Emacs (and
- the texinfo-format-buffer command) or the MakeInfo utility (has
- this been ported to OS/2?), you can produce .info files that the
- Gnu-Emacs info system can use.
-
- I did method 2, as I prefer on-line help to using lots of my printer
- paper.
-
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