Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 04:48:38 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: kleon@bellsouth.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? Message-ID: <199706220348.EAA07445@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Jun 1997 12:17:35 CDT." <33AC0CAF.39F3@bellsouth.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Howdy,
>
> I just tried to download the latest version of the Handbook in ascii
> (and latin1)[don't have postscript printer].
>
> Anyway, the file is not straight text (extranious overprint, backspace,
> etc characters) under DOS or BSD. This makes it very difficult to RTFM.
> I realize that much works is being done and the handbook is secondary.
> When can a clean ascii copy be expected?
>
> If you can upload the groff'd copy I'll run the ascii version and send
> it back.
>
> Thanks for your time
Just sed the backspaces out:
$ sed 's/^H.//g' handbook.latin1 >handbook.ascii
(type ^v^h to get a real ^H)
> Keith
> kleon@bellsouth.net
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199706220348.EAA07445>