Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 10:26:18 -0400 From: Michael Alwan <alwan@rma.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? Message-ID: <33AD360A.A84A9FF3@rma.edu> References: <199706221057.MAA04859@eac.iafrica.com>
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Robert Nordier wrote: > > Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > 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..... To read a clean, bolded, bulleted, and underscored copy of handbook.latin1.ascii, use cat with the |more switch: ie. "cat |more handbook.latin1.ascii." Found this out by trial and error--I guess you can direct the output to a file? Michael
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