From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 21 22:42:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA10017 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 22:42:25 -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 WAA10012 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 22:42:23 -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 WAA16100; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 22:42:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 22:42:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Brian Somers cc: kleon@bellsouth.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? In-Reply-To: <199706220531.GAA16243@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > This looks more like a suggested way of removing overstrikes > to me. That was certainly the intention. My point was that users ought not to have to process the handbook with tools that they may not have or may not know how to use. If it's such a piece of cake, why not do it and get the results on the server? I may be in danger of losing my sense of humor. Especially on this Saturday night. :) What I suspect is that these docs have been sgml'd, html'd, troff'd, groff'd, roff'd, and ps'd, and it's no longer possible to produce just plain old text..... Wanted! Converter to plain text! Annelise > -- > Brian , > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > >