jhm@snitor.uucp (John H. McMullen) (02/08/91)
In <27AF8150.12058@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian) writes: > By the way, this stuff is written up in the documentation. I >recommend you do what I did: print the manual, maybe with a DTP program >like TimeWorks, and staple it together. It impresses people what you >show them the manual, and then say, "It's public domain." > Have fun. >-- >John Schmitt >johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca >...!unet!utai!utgpu!maccs!johns I did this. I printed the documentation off and then discovered that my desk is *far* too crowded for an open 9 X 12 binder, so I used Pagestream to produce pasteups for a 5.5 X 8.5 manual and cerlox-bound them: One for Sozobon C, one for dLibs. (Haven't gotten around to doing the Gemfast documentation or the floating point library yet.) It's quite nice. It cost me about $15.00 to have it copied and bound (access to a Postscript printer kept the cost down considerably). I still have my paste-up boards around. If anyone wants a copy, let me know and I'll print some more up, as many as the demand justifies. The cost would be production and postage and probably another couple of dollars so I can justify the time. The actual dollar figure would depend on the volume. (Aside: According to Johann Ruegg, there's a company in England which has printed the Sozobon documentation and sells it (with the compiler) for 20 pounds. I don't know anything more about it, and I got the impression that he doesn't, either.) John McMullen (P.S. It just occurs to me that this sounds, uh, commercial. If the net.gods-that-be object, or if you feel this is an improper usage of this newsgroup, let me know, please; I have inadvertantly offended before, and I don't like the feeling.) John McMullen At work, I'm: At home, I'm: jhm@snitor.UUCP or jhmcmullen@watyew.waterloo.edu Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems John McMullen 2235 Sheppard Ave. E. 151 Beresford Ave. Willowdale, Ontario Toronto, Ontario Canada M2J 5B5 Canada M6S 3B2 416-496-8510 416-604-0310
gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins) (02/11/91)
++ (Aside: According to Johann Ruegg, there's a company in England which ++ has printed the Sozobon documentation and sells it (with the compiler) ++ for 20 pounds. I don't know anything more about it, and I got the ++ impression that he doesn't, either.) Sounds like one of the better-organised PD Clubs, perhaps even ST-Club. I can get more info if anyone's interested. Graham ====== ------------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Higgins | Phone: (0272) 799910 x 24060 Hewlett-Packard Labs | gjh%ghiggins@hpl.hp.co.uk Bristol | gjh%ghiggins@hplb.hpl.hp.com U.K. | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: My opinions above are exactly that, mine and opinions. ------------------------------------------------------------------