From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 16 11:50: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oracle.clara.net (oracle.clara.net [195.8.69.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90AB37B97A for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 11:50:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from merlin@netlink.co.uk) Received: from [212.126.135.125] (helo=A470.com) by oracle.clara.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 12rmPq-000IFu-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 16 May 2000 19:50:02 +0100 Received: (qmail 30588 invoked by uid 1000); 16 May 2000 04:20:50 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 04:20:50 +0000 From: Darren Wyn Rees To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'pr' problem Message-ID: <20000516042049.A21597@netlink.co.uk> References: <20000513043846.D84340@netlink.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000513043846.D84340@netlink.co.uk> Organization: A470 X-No-Archive: yes X-PGP-812C54B1: F8 79 5E 84 F0 20 A5 62 FA 2D E9 BD BE 06 7D 10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wrote on Sat, May 13, 2000 : > I'm having difficulty getting the 'pr' util > to work (as I was used to it, using Linux). [...] > I've read the man pages. Please, no suggestions to use perl :-) Are FreeBSDers allowed to eat their own words ? Yes, of course... I downloaded the latest GNU textutils, compiled and renamed the utils I need as .gnu, and put them in /usr/bin. (Solution#1). I then used ... |format = |^<<<< ^<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ~~ ^<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ~~ |$id $cymraeg $saesneg |---------------------------------------------------------------- |. realising how easy it was to use perl in the first place. (Solution#2). Sorry for the trouble. Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message