Re: how to view .ascii file?
Jay O'Brien wrote: > I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in > /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is > a mess. This is a tutorial on "make". I've unzipped > the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display > tool that will not show the formatting stuff in the file. Thanks to all for the fixes; they all work except lynx, apparently because lynx isn't present. I didn't realize there's such a difference in "plain ascii" between FreeBSD and Windows. Now that I can read the file, I see that it isn't what I thought it would be; it is referred to at the end of MAN MAKE and I thought it would be useful, as it was called a "tutorial". It reads like a foreign language to me, however, as I don't (yet) have the basic understanding of "MAKE" that it expects. This all started as follows: I did a make install clean of XFree86, hoping to start over and take another shot at LCD display parameters. The message I received said it was already installed, and "You may wish to 'make deinstall' and install this port again by 'make reinstall' to upgrade it properly. I want to know how 'make deinstall' and 'make reinstall' operate before I use them. But that's another subject. Jay O'Brien ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to view .ascii file?
On Monday 23 August 2004 07:17, Jay O'Brien wrote: > I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in > /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is > a mess. This is a tutorial on "make". I've unzipped > the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display > tool that will not show the formatting stuff in the file. If you wish to clean it up, so it can be read by any editor, try: lynx -dump paper.ascii > paper.txt lynx seem to do a slightly better job than less and more. Although that may be due to my terminal. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to view .ascii file?
On 2004-08-23 07:16, Bill Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, > > Would using the command: zcat work? If the file isn't really compressed you can always use just less(1) on it: % less filename.ascii If it is compressed (as the docs of /usr/share/doc usually are), I tend to prefer something from the commands shown below: % zmore filename.ascii.gz % zcat filename.ascii.gz | less % gzip -cd filename.ascii.gz | less All these are roughly equivalent to each other. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to view .ascii file?
Hmm, Would using the command: zcat work? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to view .ascii file?
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Jay O'Brien wrote: I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is a mess. This is a tutorial on "make". I've unzipped the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display tool that will not show the formatting stuff in the file. What is the "right" way to read this file? On UNIX you would do # gunzip < paper.ascii.gz | more On the DOS Prompt in Windows more is available, too. So unzip your document, open DOS Prompt and do something like c:\Desktop> more paper.ascii Regards, Uli. Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, CA USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" +---+ |Peter Ulrich Kruppa| | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---+ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to view .ascii file?
Jay O'Brien wrote: I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is a mess. This is a tutorial on "make". I've unzipped the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display tool that will not show the formatting stuff in the file. What is the "right" way to read this file? Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, CA USA Well, more or less, more(1) or less(1)? Assuming you gunzip(1) it first. Looks just fine on an Eterm, albeit not very wide columns when you're running X at a "high screen res...' Actually there's probably a better (more appropriate UNIX historical [standard]) tool, like some TEX thing, whether laTEX, teTEX, etc., but I dunno that one. Perhaps the funniest one I tried was TextMaker (from softmaker.de). Looked great, caught some words in spell check, but couldn't handle something about the header encoding, so the title is thus: "PPMMaakkee AA TTuuttoorriiaall" Hope *you* don't get double vision reading it ;-) Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: how to view .ascii file?
ashadul hoque wrote: > > Have you tried opening it with wordpad. Yes. Wordpad, Notepad, Word. It's a mess in all of them. Jay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
how to view .ascii file?
I'm trying to read the 'paper.ascii' file contained in /usr/share/doc/psd/12.make/paper.ascii.gz and it is a mess. This is a tutorial on "make". I've unzipped the file in a WinXP machine and I can't find a display tool that will not show the formatting stuff in the file. What is the "right" way to read this file? Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, CA USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
