From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jul 23 13:43:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA13179 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:43:42 -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 NAA13172 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:43:38 -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 NAA03926; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:43:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: "Sergei S. Laskavy" cc: brian_thurston@rocketship.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ASCII? In-Reply-To: <199707231450.SAA11585@ns.cs.msu.su> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Sergei S. Laskavy wrote: > >>>>> "Brian" == Brian writes: > > Brian> Hi: I have succeeded in downloading both the FreeBSD > Brian> Handbook and FAQ is ascii format. My question is exactly > Brian> what flavour of ascii are we talking about? > > You can read this wich "more" (standard pager) or "less" (GNU pager, > from packages/ports) and print it with printer. > > Brian> The downloaded versions I have are loaded with obscure > Brian> formatting information that refusese to be decoded by the > Brian> many editors I have. > > If you want to delete this, I can post you one-line sed script :) Is this on FreeBSD, or did you download to a dos/Windows machine? In FreeBSD you can do cat FAQ.ascii | col -b > FAQ.txt col -b removes the ^H sequences. Annelise > > Brian> example: > > Brian> Welcome to FreeBSD! This handbook covers the installation > Brian> and day to day use of FFrreeeeBBSSDD > Brian> RReelleeaassee 22..22..22. This > Brian> manual is a wwoorrkk iinn > Brian> pprrooggrreessss and is the work of many > Brian> individuals. >