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Eli Zaretskii
eliz@is.elta.co.il
Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:13:39 +0200 (IST)
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Erik Frambach wrote:
> I believe that 99% or more of the Windows users haven't the faintest idea
> what man pages are.
What do you suggest to users of a program that has a man page as its only
documentation? Do you tell them to randomly poke around with the mouse
until it works?
> Not a single native Windows user uses Emacs or any Unix
> style program.
Where do you get your statistics? Try reading the gnu.emacs.help group,
and you will see a lot of ``native'' Windows users there. Try the
NTEmacs mailing list, and you will see much more of them.
> Therefore I would say: go for PDF only!
This assumes that every Windows machine has Acrobat installed. From my
experience, this is not true.