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Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference"

From Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference"
Date 2022-09-12 05:47 +0000
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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't know about Linux, but on Windows in order to read his book, which, supposedly, 
> weigh 1 or 5 MB, one needs to download ~200 MB worth of software that expands to 
> ~900 MB of disk space. And that's would be sufficient only if you already have msys2,
> gcc, python,  make and binutils installed. Which is true in case of myself, but but wrong
> for 99% of Windows users. So, for those 99% there is a need to install another 2 or 5 GB.
> 
> I wonder, if RMS is doing it intentionally or out of ignorance.

You can read the .texi file directly. It's not like it's some inscrutable highly
obfuscated binary format. It's actually significantly more legible than eg. XML.

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"Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-09-09 12:49 -0500
  Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-09-09 19:03 +0000
  Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-10 18:16 +0200
    Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-09-10 17:04 +0000
      Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-11 08:29 +0000
      Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2022-09-24 16:24 +0200
        C++ is for real, C is just a toy (Was: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference") gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2022-09-24 15:54 +0000
          Re: C++ is for real, C is just a toy (Was: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference") Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-24 18:07 +0200
    Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-11 08:29 +0000
      Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-11 11:16 +0200
        Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-11 09:44 +0000
          Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-11 13:42 +0200
            Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-11 15:44 +0000
              Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-11 17:55 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-11 16:17 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-11 18:22 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-09-11 12:41 -0700
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-12 06:10 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-09-12 00:27 -0700
              Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2022-09-12 09:18 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-12 09:42 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2022-09-12 12:05 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-12 12:12 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2022-09-24 16:31 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-12 15:58 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-12 18:48 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2022-09-12 20:32 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-13 13:27 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Andreas Kempe <kempe@lysator.liu.se> - 2022-09-13 22:33 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-14 06:04 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Andreas Kempe <kempe@lysator.liu.se> - 2022-09-14 10:38 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-14 12:21 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2022-09-15 12:15 -0700
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-16 06:02 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-16 10:37 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-16 11:05 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-16 13:18 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-16 16:00 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-16 15:16 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-18 12:13 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-19 05:45 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-19 08:33 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-19 10:41 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-19 13:48 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-19 15:22 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-16 13:10 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-19 05:51 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-09-19 12:27 -0700
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-09-16 11:19 -0700
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-09-16 06:56 -0700
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-09-16 14:29 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-16 17:04 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2022-09-16 08:24 -0700
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-09-16 09:00 -0700
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Chris Vine <chris@cvine--nospam--.freeserve.co.uk> - 2022-09-15 00:54 +0100
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-15 05:31 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Chris Vine <chris@cvine--nospam--.freeserve.co.uk> - 2022-09-15 10:19 +0100
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-22 12:41 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-14 09:16 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Andreas Kempe <kempe@lysator.liu.se> - 2022-09-14 10:29 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-09-14 15:55 +0200
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Andreas Kempe <kempe@lysator.liu.se> - 2022-09-16 20:16 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-09-16 16:55 -0500
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-09-16 22:21 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Andreas Kempe <kempe@lysator.liu.se> - 2022-09-17 14:52 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-19 06:06 +0000
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                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-13 13:29 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-09-14 05:56 +0000
                Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2022-09-14 09:37 +0000
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          Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-09-11 18:35 +0200
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  Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2022-09-10 12:56 -0700
    Re: "Richard Stallman Announces C Reference" Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-09-10 15:53 -0700
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