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Hal Duston
hduston at speedscript.com
Fri Jul 18 14:26:44 CDT 2003
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 08:40, Frank Wiles wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:12:22 +0000
> Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at opus1.com> wrote:
> > I'm sure it's a very nice program. Unfortunately, those ridiculous
> > Mac-heads at Qualcomm have converted the installations to a PDF manual
> > so you have to have a GUI playstation available to read it.
> >
> > Don't these people understand that SERVERS are usually CONSOLE BASED,
> > for security and efficiency? They should just give up and release it
> > as a Windows binary if they're going to go GUI before you even get to
> > the install.
> I agree that having it as a PDF is somewhat of a pain, but it's very
> easy to open on a GUI and convert to text.
The xpdf package has a program called pdftotext that converts pdf files
to text. It is a console application that doesn't need X.
--
Hal
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