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Re: Printable Copy Of The cygwin Users Guide]


On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:06:33AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Fri, 9 May 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:44:52PM -0400, Matthew O. Persico wrote:
>> > On Thu, 8 May 2003 18:55:56 -0500, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>> > >there is now a decent PDF.
>> >
>> > It's a very good PDF.
>>
>> Thanks, though I really can't take any credit. It's just openjade and
>> pdfjadetex automatically trying to convert the DocBook sources.
>
>Joshua,
>
>I'll have to agree with Matt -- it is a very good PDF, although, IMO,
>having it compressed defeats the purpose a bit...  Especially compressed
>with gzip -- people might want to read it before installing Cygwin, you
>know.  Since it only compresses to about 190k (from the original 390k),
>I'd guess having it up there uncompressed would do more good (unless web
>space is a problem).

If people want to read about it, then they can read the web pages.  That's
what web pages are for.

cgf

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