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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
Reply-To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? 
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On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Brian Somers wrote:

> Has anyone any objections (cc'd to freebsd-hackers) to me adding
> a .txt version of the handbook & FAQ ?
> 
> > 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.....
> > 
> > Wanted!  Converter to plain text!

$ col -b < inputfile > outputfile

At one time in history the sgmlfmt script did that automatically
for text output.  I suppose it could be brought back in as an
option.

-john