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(...) Unfortunately, I don't have any facilities to download the entire contents of a web site. So I would rquire somebody to tar and gzip the html files in the documentation subtree at the legos site and send it to me for conversion. (Now before I (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Ahh, but this specialized newsgroup -is- for cluttering up :) with comments of that nature -- as long as things remain on-topic to legOS and still helpful to Markus and comrades. (...) It costs money? Bummer. So only the viewer is free then? (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I have linux and Win NT, but my linux machine is not always available, so I would like to be able to build legOS on my NT machine. (...) Dave Madden once told me that he was working on some scripts and docs to show how to install egcs and (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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More than a few people have emailed me already telling me that PDF is not the way to go because it will limit who can contribute to it (thank you to those people, by the way, for keeping such comments to email rather than cluttering the newsgroup (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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In this vein, what is the distribution of OS's people are using (or attempting to use) with legOS? Personally I am a linux user and feel comfortable explaining that. As for Windows 95/98/NT it might be better if someone who uses legOS on those (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Mark Tarrabain wrote in message <36CE02AF.8C000243@l....bc.ca>... (...) Yes this is a brilliant Idea! I agree. LINC (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) really good (...) I wholeheartedly agree! I've downloaded and installed the egcs binaries but could never get LegOS to compile because of my path environment as well as numerous other issues. I also concur that PDF would be a more desirable (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'd vote for PDF over HTML. For one thing, a PDF document will be considerably smaller in size than an equivalent HTML document. HTML also has the less-than desirable characteristic (in my opinion) of "fragmenting" a hypertext document across (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I would like to see a high level overview, api documentation similar to that created by doxygen, and then examples of usage for each call. (...) HTML works well. The MS Win32 API documentation is a good example for an API documentation layout. (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Dwayne Jacques Fontenot wrote in message ... (...) well I was planning on lurking here for a while and try some of my "newsgroup osmotic learning", but since you asked :) I would be looking for: "getting the very interested (and capable) beginner (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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