please look at the comments below.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Max Eskin <max82_at_surfree.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Disk Drive Documents
>On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>>I spent the better part of a year trying to get complete documents from
>>Sunsite and other loci when I had the urge to learn about LINUX. It
seemed
>>that EVERY PARAGRAPH was a separate file . . . what a PAIN. There I sat,
>>50 computers, 35 TB of storage available half a dozen available DS3's for
>>internet traffic, and I had to type one character for every ten I
>>downloaded, or so it seemed.
>>
>>There's got to be a better way. Please tell me what it is.
>
>Well, you could get a Linux CD or book, which will have all of these for
>you. However, I'm not sure which documents you're referring to. I've had
>no related problems. There is also another issue, and that is that from
>what I've found, the docs are useless 'learning about Linux'. They are
>useful if you need command syntax, or if there is some specific thing that
>you need to do and documentation exists for it. I found a book called
>'UNIX Shell Programming' to be an invaluable resource. I do dislike Linux
>books because they are usually either printed versions of the e-docs, or
>very superficial. Check your library for a book on UNIX.
I did that, and as you say, they're generally just reductions to CD of the
published e-docs, except that they're permanently mixed together out of
logical or chronological sequence, so you can't track progress of a given
feature set. I wasn't after info on UNIX, I was after info on LINUX.
However that's not what THIS thread is about.
>This, however, has little to do with the disk drive documentation. Nobody
>will try to modify it, and since it will be tech manuals, I hardly think
>that there will be a dilemma as to which file to download. Your all-in-one
>approach does have merits, but as people have said, it's clumsy. A better
>choice would be to either tar/zip the files together or simply put all
>related files into one directory, so that when one needs to get a manual,
>one just does 'get *' at the FTP prompt.
I'm not sure clumsy is what it is, but it's inherently solvable if not
elegant. If I can break out parts of the document into PCL, then I can do
that into POSTSCRIPT as well, and so can you. If the guy down the hall
can't, he can ask for help.
>--Max Eskin (max82_at_surfree.com)
> http://scivault.hypermart.net: Ignorance is Impotence - Knowledge is
Power
>
Received on Mon Jun 07 1999 - 20:39:19 BST