From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 6 04:24:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A3D16A401 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:24:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D8613C481 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:24:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l263oXmV010773; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:50:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <45ECE4FD.4060902@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:50:21 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <539c60b90703010849x33dd4bbbt8f6ca6aa0c8e83a0@mail.gmail.com> <45E70B8C.8010602@daleco.biz> <200703021127.42170.mario.lobo@ipad.com.br> <20070302162855.GA7250@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20070302162855.GA7250@kobe.laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mario Lobo , FreeBSD Subject: Re: defrag X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:24:59 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-03-02 11:27, Mario Lobo wrote: >> On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:27, Pietro Cerutti wrote: >>> On 3/1/07, Kevin Kinsey wrote: >>>> Kevin Kinsey wrote: >>>> >>>> groff /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/* > ~/ffs.ps >> This is what worked for me: >> >> [~]>gunzip -c /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/paper.ascii.gz > paper.ascii >> [~]>groff paper.ascii > ffs.ps >> [~]>ps2pdf ffs.ps >> [~]>acroread ffs.pdf > > Actually 'paper.ascii' is a plain ASCII file with some 'escape > sequences' -- like literal backspace and repeated characters, to denote > *bold* text. It's not valid groff input AFAIK, but you can strip off > the special characters with: > > gunzip -c /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/paper.ascii.gz > 05.fastfs.ascii > col -b < 05.fastfs.ascii > 05.fastfs.txt && rm 05.fastfs.ascii > > Then you have a plain text version of 05.fastfs.txt, which can be > converted to PS and/or PDF with tools like a2ps or enscript :) > As *you* know, but maybe some others don't, I'm a (relative) newb and was clueless about these "old papers"; I believe I came across my hackage by, err, hacking? It worked, but not nearly so prettily ;-) Oh, and I tried *piping* to `col -bx`, but no joy. Thanks for the __real__ magic! KDK -- There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide. -- Mortimer Caplan