Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 03:10:23 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> Cc: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to view .ascii file? Message-ID: <4129A66F.5000701@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <41298C0F.3070600@att.net> References: <41298C0F.3070600@att.net>
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Jay O'Brien wrote:
>I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in
>/usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is
>a mess. This is a tutorial on "make". I've unzipped
>the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display
>tool that will not show the formatting stuff in the file.
>
>What is the "right" way to read this file?
>
>Jay O'Brien
>Rio Linda, CA USA
>
>
Well, more or less, more(1) or less(1)? Assuming
you gunzip(1) it first. Looks just fine on an Eterm,
albeit not very wide columns when you're running
X at a "high screen res...'
Actually there's probably a better (more appropriate
UNIX historical [standard]) tool, like some TEX thing,
whether laTEX, teTEX, etc., but I dunno that one.
Perhaps the funniest one I tried was TextMaker
(from softmaker.de). Looked great, caught some
words in spell check, but couldn't handle something
about the header encoding, so the title is thus:
"PPMMaakkee ---- AA TTuuttoorriiaall"
Hope *you* don't get double vision reading it ;-)
Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.
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