Re: GNOME DocTable

[Daniel Rees <dan dwrees co uk>]

At 08:48 01/11/01 +0000, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:36:47AM +0000 or thereabouts, Daniel Rees wrote:
>> I've spoken to Sasha about this and he seems to think this would be a good
>> first project for me to work on (althoug Telsa seems to be assigned to it).
>
>Urgh. I shouldn't be. It fried my brain. That must be from ages and
>ages ago. Feel free to have it. 

Ok, what fried your brain about it, just so I know? :)

>> Unfortunately I do not have access to CVS (my net connection at college is
>> Win95, but my standalone box is Linux). Is this a major problem?

>Not really: you can send it to someone else to put in CVS. The only
>thing I do remember is that you may need to be careful what editor
>you use in Windows. I think some editors do funny things to line
>endings. Perhaps someone who knows both Windows and Unix can explain
>this better. (I haven't used Windows so all I see is the result on
>Unix and I don't know how it's caused.)

Well, I'll be doing the work in Linux so it is no problem - what I meant was
that I could only e-mail/FTP using Windows.

Any news on when the new handbook/templates etc will be up and ready for
newbies like me? Otherwise I'm a bit clueless as to where to start. :)

Daniel Rees
dan dwrees co uk