From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Nov 26 14:22:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA24751 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:22:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA24744 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:22:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA07095; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:19:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 14:19:54 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Tom Leung cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook in HTML and Dos format In-Reply-To: <347B8323.DDA0C7FA@hkstar.com> 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, 26 Nov 1997, Tom Leung wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I have downloaded the Handbook in HTML format. Its extension is .gz, so > I unzip it with 'gzip.exe' under Dos, and I find that it is expaned into > a single HTML file. I know that it should be broken down into several > hundred HTML files, e.g. handbook.html, handbook2.html, handbook3.html, > etc. How can I do that under Dos? I don't think you want to do that. The version of the handbook in multiple sections has links to the other sections (or to next and previous) and you wouldn't get these. Assuming you've got Netscape on a Win3.1 or Win95 setup, you can view and print from Netscape, and print the chapters you want. > I also downloaded the Handbook in Dos format. However, there are some > special characters inside. I guess that they are the formatting > characters in the original document that supposed to be bold or > underline. How can I properly format the document such that I can view > or print the document properly? If you have Microsoft Word or WordPerfect, you can use them to delete the ^H (backspace) characters that create boldface when the document is called to the screen under certain unix utilities (e.g., "more" and "less"). Alternatively you can send them document (or sections of it, if you divide it into chapters using a word processor) directly to the printer and most printers will actually do the backspacing and print it in a readable fashion. I don't think under dos/win there is any way to view this document in an acceptable manner. But it's less desirable than printing the HTML version from Netscape, because with Netscape printing (IE should work too) you get the italics, bold, and so forth, which is helpful in understanding it. > > Thanks and regards, > Tom Leung. > Annelise