From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 22 19:23:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA05409 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 19:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA05403 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 19:23:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA18092; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 19:23:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 19:23:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Brian Somers cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , kleon@bellsouth.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? In-Reply-To: <199706222158.WAA09144@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > Sorry - handbook.ascii is already generated. I was being > stupid. I can appreciate that some people have problems with > latin - DOS/Win stuff won't grok the ^Hs. I just didn't realize > that .ascii is already there - despite being in that code only > a few weeks ago. Well, I'll try this once more. I think what's happening is that whatever generates handbook.ascii is broken. It is indeed generated; it's put on the server; it gets downloaded, and this is the result: FFrreeeeBBSSDD HHaannddbbooookk The FreeBSD Documentation Project May 1997 AAbbssttrraacctt Welcome to FreeBSD! This handbook covers the installation and day to day use of FFrreeeeBBSSDD RReelleeaassee 22..22..22. This manual is a wwoo rrkk iinn pprrooggrreessss [...] also be downloaded in plain text, postscript or HTML from the FreeBSD FTP server2 or one of the numerous _m_i_r_r_o_r _s_i_t_e_s (section 23.2, The various suggestions to repair this text, such as piping it through col -b, running little sed scripts, and so forth are inappropriate from the point of view that this document (and the FAQ, which has the same problems) are supposed to be useful to people running dos/Windows as well as people who may not yet be familiar with various unix utilities. But these suggestions also seem to be in error, because the downloaded handbook.ascii doesn't have any ^H codes or any other codes in it; it's what I would call hard-coded just as it appears above. Doing substitutions for ^H or running it though col -b have no effect on it whatsoever. Thus, the code that generates handbook.ascii is broken, right? Annelise