What's going on?

[Peter Neuhaus]

Hi,

On Fri, 19 May 2000, Horacio MG wrote:

> > 	- and hopefully a chapter on Mozilla/Outlook plugins
> 
> Hopefully?  While I can understand it, I wish people were given the
> chance of building the book with/out that particular chapter.

To broaden the acceptance of GnuPG, of course... ;-) I will stick to mutt,
for my part.

> > 	- a concise reference derived from the manpage
[...]       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > the following chapters have been dropped:
> > 
> > 	- c5 (topics)
> > 	- c6 (command reference)
> > 	- c7 (options reference)
> 
> ???
[...]
> Really meaning here that there will be no command & options reference
> chapters?

See above... that will be the "concise reference". IMHO it's not necessary
to have 75 pages command & options reference as in the english GPH.
As I've said before, it isn't all work done, yet.

> > > If whatever has been done is going to be, sooner or later,
> > > translated into English
> > 
> > That's a good idea - as soon as the german version is in (or close to)
> > a final stade. I'm looking forward to cooperate...
> 
> Cooperate?  I'm afraid you will have to translate German -> English on
> your own.  I wish I could help, "aber, haben Sie sehen mein Deutsch ist
> gleich null?"  Seriously, I only can do the English -> Spanish bit.

Your german is getting better, though... but let's finish the german
version first... :-)

> Anyway, just my opinion but, if the Unix Command & Option chapters won't
> be there anymore then I believe the "old handbook" should be allowed to
> stay and farther develope aside from the new one.

There will be a reference. The german GPH won't be a reduced
version of the english one - rather an expanded.

			bye,
		
					Peter