Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 13:43:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: "Sergei S. Laskavy" <laskavy@cs.msu.su> Cc: brian_thurston@rocketship.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ASCII? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970723134038.3873B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <199707231450.SAA11585@ns.cs.msu.su>
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On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Sergei S. Laskavy wrote: > >>>>> "Brian" == Brian <briand@intergate.bc.ca> 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. >
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