Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2007-03-02 11:27, Mario Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:27, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
On 3/1/07, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
groff /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/* > ~/ffs.ps
This is what worked for me:
[~]>gunzip -c /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/paper.ascii.gz > paper.ascii
[~]>groff paper.ascii > ffs.ps
[~]>ps2pdf ffs.ps
[~]>acroread ffs.pdf
Actually 'paper.ascii' is a plain ASCII file with some 'escape
sequences' -- like literal backspace and repeated characters, to denote
*bold* text. It's not valid groff input AFAIK, but you can strip off
the special characters with:
gunzip -c /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/paper.ascii.gz > 05.fastfs.ascii
col -b < 05.fastfs.ascii > 05.fastfs.txt && rm 05.fastfs.ascii
Then you have a plain text version of 05.fastfs.txt, which can be
converted to PS and/or PDF with tools like a2ps or enscript :)
As *you* know, but maybe some others don't, I'm a (relative) newb and
was clueless about these "old papers"; I believe I came across my
hackage by, err, hacking? It worked, but not nearly so prettily ;-)
Oh, and I tried *piping* to `col -bx`, but no joy. Thanks for the
__real__ magic!
KDK
--
There is one difference between a tax collector and
a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide.
-- Mortimer Caplan
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