From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13045 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2012 13:19:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 30395 Received: (qmail 25667 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2012 13:19:48 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Received-SPF: none (ns1.primenet.com.au: domain at csr.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:35:24 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson To: zsh workers Subject: Re: intro.ms Message-ID: <20120413133524.076d7c74@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Cambridge Silicon Radio X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.0; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.101.10.18] X-Scanned-By: MailControl 7.7.0 (www.mailcontrol.com) on 10.71.0.123 On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:21:27 +0200 Mikael Magnusson wrote: > For more information, the files Doc/intro.txt or Doc/intro.troff > included with the source distribution are highly recommended. A list > of features is given in FEATURES, also with the source. > > But these files don't exist at least since we started using cvs, and I > can't get any man/troff/nroff/*roff variant to produce readable output > from intro.ms. /README notes that it is based on zsh 2.5 but still a > good introduction. Does anyone know how to build it, or should we > remove it and/or the recommendation to read it? "nroff -ms" is still producing quite readable about for me, and "pdfroff -ms" produced a usable document which we could distribute in the doc bundle, but it's not a very sensible source format. I suppose it would need to be translated by hand. -- Peter Stephenson Software Engineer Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070 Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, UK Member of the CSR plc group of companies. CSR plc registered in England and Wales, registered number 4187346, registered office Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, United Kingdom More information can be found at www.csr.com. Follow CSR on Twitter at http://twitter.com/CSR_PLC and read our blog at www.csr.com/blog