[9572] in Athena Bugs
Re: rt 7.4G: help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Jul 9 01:10:05 1992
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 92 01:09:54 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: Chris Craig <crcraig@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [9570]
What were you trying to do?
View the 7.4 System Release notes using 'help'.
What's wrong:
They are virtually unreadable. The lines are too long, and it
looks like the document needs to be run through nroff first.
The document was written in LaTeX, which is unfortunately very
difficult to convert to plain text. What you see when you read it on
a non-X terminal is the output of dvi2tty, which is admittedly not all
that great, but which can't be much improved upon. I will forward
your report to the documentation group, but I don't think they're
going to be able to do much about it.
If you want to read it in a more comprehensible way, then I suggest
you get a printed copy of it or read it on an X workstation, using the
X version of help, so that it is previewed with xdvi.
Jonathan Kamens
IS/Athena Quality Assurance
