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Article #71927Re: TeXinfo Mailing List/gnu.texinfo?
From: Christian Lynbech
Date: Mon, 25 May 1992 08:34
Date: Mon, 25 May 1992 08:34
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scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
>I've been making quite a bit of use of texinfo lately. It's a mix of
>writing documentation for our internal users of internal systems, and
>some larger docs for various other purposes. Along the way I keep
>running into questions, limits, feature ideas, etc.
>A gnu.texinfo group would be useful for this, but it's not clear to
>me if there are enough other folks interested to make it worthwhile.
>Anybody?
>This note has been sent to gnu.misc.discuss and comp.text.tex.
>--
>Simmons' Law Of Diskless Workstations: "For every dollar you spend on
> a diskless workstation, expect to spend a dollar on a file server."
>Corrollary: "If you spend $.75 instead of $1.00, expect to spend another
> $.75 fixing it when it doesn't perform to spec."
This is a very good idea, I would very much like such a group (or mailinglist).
After all, TeXinfo is (in my eyes at least) one of the major contribution to
computing mankind from the GNU project.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,f667073d1262ae37 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-05-25 05:30:14 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!news.bbn.com!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic2!dkuug!daimi!lynbech From: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk (Christian Lynbech) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: TeXinfo Mailing List/gnu.texinfo? Message-ID: <1992May25.083420.8204@daimi.aau.dk> Date: 25 May 92 08:34:20 GMT References: <scs.706458314@hela.iti.org> Sender: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk (Christian Lynbech) Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark Lines: 37