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Re: TeXinfo Mailing List/gnu.texinfo?

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From: Christian Lynbech
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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