[KLUG Members] Html vs Adobe Acrobat

[Adam Williams]

>>>When downloading files/directories from various web sites, it seems more 
>>>common to see Adobe Acrobat formats than in the past. 
>>True.
>>Every linux distro comes with tools for converting postscript to pdf. 
>Hmm, I am not familiar with this.  Can I convert html files to postscript

Yes.  'Print' the page to a postscript file and convert it with ps2pdf, or 
use something like 
http://freshmeat.net/projects/form_tools/?topic_id=68%2C96 or 
http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmldoc/?topic_id=87%2C154%2C857%2C856%2C853

>and then to pdf. and still have the html work inside the pdf file?

I don't know what you mean by "have the html work inside the pdf file"

>>They serve entirely different purposed.  If you just want to sling about
>slippets of HTML I'd use ".tgz".  Current versions of WinZip, etc... all
>not read tgz and tgz beats the pants of zip.

>Is'nt ".tgz" a unix format only??

Oh no!  NT comes with the "pax" command which reads/writes tar files.  
pkzip/pkzunip processess tgz,  as do tools on both BeOS and Amiga.

It is just most commonly used amongst power-users, and thus much more 
common on UN*X than Win32 (where most of the users are rather hapless).
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