Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 06:31:42 +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: <199706220531.GAA16243@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Jun 1997 21:49:52 PDT." <Pine.BSI.3.94.970621214054.15956A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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[.....] > Now here we have a nice offer from someone who will convert a troff > version to plain text. How about taking him up on it? > > Annelise > > > 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) > > > > > Keith > > > kleon@bellsouth.net > > > > -- > > Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org> > > <http://www.awfulhak.org>; > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... This looks more like a suggested way of removing overstrikes to me. That was certainly the intention. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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