From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 22 07:50:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA04668 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 07:50:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA04655 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 07:50:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA23971; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 15:37:04 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199706221437.PAA23971@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Annelise Anderson cc: Brian Somers , kleon@bellsouth.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 22 Jun 1997 00:09:42 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 15:37:04 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > > > Just sed the backspaces out: > > > > $ sed 's/^H.//g' handbook.latin1 >handbook.ascii > > > > (type ^v^h to get a real ^H) > > 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. > > 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 > -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....