Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:42:21 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: nice troll (was: All this resource-fork AKA multiple stream nonsense) |
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On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
[Alan sez: "kernel source tree is compound document"] > > There isn't a well-defined and obvious way to print the > > whole thing. > > find . -name "(*.[chS]|Makefile|*.dep....)" -exec lpr $* \;
Why the .dep files? Why not the Documentation/ directory?
I guess these questions just about prove that Albert is right in that there's no well-defined way to print the whole thing.
You have shown us a method of dumping the thing to the printer, not a structure in which to order the thing for printing.
> Notice Im also able to finely tune the sections I print, which > a compound single file document would make harder.
If the sections are fully independant, then almost by definition it's not a compound document.
We're talking about compound documents here, leading us away from the topic by asserting that you consider the kernel to be a compound document is (IMHO) not proper netiquette.
OTOH, I do agree that people are getting used to having a document consist of multiple files -- home pages have helped user education in at least this aspect. Then again, why not help the user by making compound documents available in both ways?
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