Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 15:37:04 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, kleon@bellsouth.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? Message-ID: <199706221437.PAA23971@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Jun 1997 00:09:42 PDT." <Pine.BSI.3.94.970622000520.16306B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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> On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Brian Somers wrote:
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> > Just sed the backspaces out:
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> > $ sed 's/^H.//g' handbook.latin1 >handbook.ascii
> >
> > (type ^v^h to get a real ^H)
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> Actually this won't work. There aren't any ^H. in the file; what
> there are, instead, are lots of double letters and lots of underscores.
> In other words a filed attempt to convert something to ascii (or
> plain text) has already been made.
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> There's always the option of testing proposed solutions before
> posting them.....
Excuse me ? There are several versions of the handbook (& the FAQ).
I'm *obviously* talking about the .latin1 version. The .latin1
version is just ascii with overstrikes.
You're obviously talking about the postscript one. If you want to
do something with that, get a copy of ghostscript. It builds on
lots of platforms.
There's always the option of reading what I posted.
> Annelise
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