Thread: INSTALL file

I just saw that the INSTALL file in the distribution is completely messed
up. Whatever happened to the nice one that used to be there?

For those who haven't been paying attention, the attached file is how it
should look.

Let me also point out that writing

  <para>
...
   <programlisting>
> gunzip postgresql-7.0.tar.gz
> tar -xf postgresql-7.0.tar
> mv postgresql-7.0 /usr/src
   </programlisting>

should probably be avoided in favour of

<programlisting>
> gunzip postgresql-7.0.tar.gz
> tar -xf postgresql-7.0.tar
> mv postgresql-7.0 /usr/src
</programlisting>

because otherwise you get an extra blank line (for a total of two) after
each programlisting -- automatic indentation be damned.

Btw., is programlisting really the right sort of tag for this? We're not
doing "A literal listing of all or part of a program" (sic DocBook).

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Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders väg 10:115
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I totally agree.  Can someone use lyx for the conversion from html to
text? This is what I use.

    :
    trap "rm -f /tmp/$$" 0 1 2 3 15

    if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]
    then    cat >/tmp/$$
        set /tmp/$$
    fi
    lynx -force_html -dump -hiddenlinks=ignore -nolist "$@"

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Bruce Momjian writes:

> I totally agree.  Can someone use lyx for the conversion from html to
> text? This is what I use.

We have actually been using Netscape for as long as I remember. Okay, the
new file is in place now.

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Peter Eisentraut                  Sernanders väg 10:115
peter_e@gmx.net                   75262 Uppsala
http://yi.org/peter-e/            Sweden

[Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > I totally agree.  Can someone use lyx for the conversion from html to
> > text? This is what I use.
>
> We have actually been using Netscape for as long as I remember. Okay, the
> new file is in place now.
>

Really?  I thought lyx did a better job?  Oh, well, thanks for cleaning
it up.  I couldn't figure out how to do it.

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  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://www.op.net/~candle
  pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610) 853-3000
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026