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(...) Well what about ONE html file. Nobody ever said you had to fragment html files. Or whatabout a group but zipped or tar.gzed (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PDF (was Re: legOS docs - what do people want?)
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Well as long as there is an html version I don't care. I still think pdf is a pain to read because it doesn't scroll well. (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello. The API documentation tool I use can generate HTML, LaTeX and manpages. Unless Dimiti expands its capabilities to also generate PDF - or somebody points me to a better tool and volunteers to convert the sources that exist already - HTML (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I would be concerned about memory usage. The current Palm machines have one and two megabytes of RAM, the CE machines even more. That's a lot more than the 32kB the RCX 1.0 has (though if you think about it, for the price, compared to the palm (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thanks, Todd, I think you have (hopefully) circumvented the "I hate pdf" and "HTML sucks" threads that were cranking up in response to this... -- SeeYa ! ---...--- Jim ---...--- Hello... Is this thing on ? Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I like the pdf format. I have no trouble reading it either on my laptop (800X600) or on this machine (1280X1024). I use the "fit width" option, and have never seen the text be "too small" in either case. It is becoming commonplace in the industry, I (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I've been noticing a lot of activity lately creating java virtual machines on micro contollers. Is anyone using legOS as the basis for an h8/300 java vm? Something like waba, (URL) be a nice programming environment for the RCX. -rick (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) (smile) I never should have written "either ... or" above. =:*) Certainly, since there is demand for both PDF and HTML forms of the docs, and since the HTML form will just happen no matter what, and MarkT has offered to create the PDF form (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) PDP-11? FreeBSD, Solaris, XENIX, other flavors of Unix? NT, presumably. Win 3.1? DOS? Apple ]['s? Just some off-the-top of my head paltforms, that i somehow doubt are _all_ supported... Jasper (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) True, but there are freely available PDF generators (htmldoc coming to mind most readily). Adobe Distiller is the one supplied with the commercial version of Adobe Acrobat. (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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