processing a web site for paper-based format: INFO NEEDED

The Big Glee Bopper thom at indiana.edu
Wed Feb 21 10:50:03 EST 1996


On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Laura Guy wrote:

> a colleague of mine who is doing work in South Africa asked how
> difficult it would be to move the entire web-site into some sort of
> format (perhaps like postscript) so it could be distributed to 
> those less fortunate resource-wise (many researchers in South Africa
> do not have the computer resources necessary to use our web site).

Why not press the entire collection onto a CD with Mosaic as the browser 
for a central depository in Africa to localize distribution and access 
closer to need. I'm thinking of places like ICRISAT in India as model 
which already does something similar to this.

--Thom


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