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Subject: [ruby-talk:29158] Re: Programming Ruby
From: Dave Thomas <Dave@ a a c o a e c >
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 03:59:54 +0900
References: 29156
In-reply-to: "Marcio Barbosa"'s message of "Fri, 21 Dec 2001 03:49:34 +0900"

"Marcio Barbosa" <argaeus / yahoo.com.br> writes:

> I would like to know if there's a version of "Programming Ruby" in
> plain text format.

There's an XML version, which with some effort could be converted to
plain text. There's also 'ri', which can render the reference section
for builtin classes and modules in plain text.


Dave (sighing as he watches sales of the book plummet)