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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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