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Jay O'Brien wrote:

>I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in 
>/usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is 
>a mess. This is a tutorial on "make". I've unzipped 
>the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display 
>tool that will not show the formatting stuff in the file. 
>
>What is the "right" way to read this file?
>
>Jay O'Brien
>Rio Linda, CA USA
>  
>

Well, more or less, more(1) or less(1)?  Assuming
you gunzip(1) it first.  Looks just fine on an Eterm,
albeit not very wide columns when you're running
X at a "high screen res...'

Actually there's probably a better (more appropriate
UNIX historical [standard]) tool, like some TEX thing,
whether laTEX, teTEX, etc., but I dunno that one.

Perhaps the funniest one I tried was TextMaker
(from softmaker.de).  Looked great, caught some
words in spell check, but couldn't handle something
about the header encoding, so the title is thus:

         "PPMMaakkee ---- AA TTuuttoorriiaall"

Hope *you* don't get double vision reading it ;-)

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.