Winston Smith wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 WS>   Re: Cygwin
 WS>   By: Roy J. Tellason to Jasen Betts on Fri Aug 15 2003 05:06 am 

 >  JB> try 'info'
 > 
 > Ugh.  Why stuff is available *only* in that format sometimes is
 > beyond me...
 WS>  
 WS>      On some sites, all that can be assumed is that EMacs is
 WS> present (say on a JCL driven mainframe in a machineroom).  As EMacs
 WS> is the one common denominator, it is used as the common online
 WS> documentation viewer.  (I seem to remember that raw 'info' text can
 WS> be converted directly to LaTex using an EMacs built-in function???)

I don't know.  And emacs is one of those "I don't want to go there
just yet" things,  at this point I haven't yet learned how to cope
with vi,  which as I understand it is also in a lot of places.

As far as conversion goes,  I think there's stuff on the machine somewhere
that'll convert to html,  and then I can deal with it more comfortably. 
I'm getting *very* comfortable with using that as a presentation medium and
a way to keep all of my documentation online sorted out...

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