From: Robert Deering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:47:29 +0100, Bjorn Simonsen wrote:
>> Figured some of you might find this of interest:
>> #quote:
>> PC DOS 7 Technical Update
>> Document Number GG24-4459-00
>> February 1995
>> International Technical Support Organization
>> Boca Raton Center
>> Abstract
>> [...] This book is a technical reference, upgraded from IBM DOS
>> 5.02 and written for DOS programmers, who develop applications
>> for IBM Personal Computers or compatible systems. [...]
>> #unquote
>> Can be viewed as individual html pages, or downloaded in
>> PDF format (I just did) - 402 pages, 882Kb - from here:
>html: uses javascript right of the bat
>pdf: shows only errors and blank pages with acrodos
>Not even attempting ghostcript 5.1 (latest for DOS). A not even marginal
>converter and no reader at all.
>IT'S A DOS MANUAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not sure this is exactly right, but it may help:
Get DOS "pdftotext" at ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-0.90-dos.zip
(1,298,148 bytes) and ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/MSDOS/gzip124.exe
(119,146 bytes) and unpack. You only need the pdftotext.exe and gzip.exe in
your PATH= statement. Entering "pdftotext xyz.pdf" should give you xyz.txt,
an ASCII text file, derived from "xyz.pdf" (or whatever the *.pdf file
name is.)
Also, I believe that there is an Internet-enabled pdf-to-text facility at the
http://www.adobe.com site.
Boyd Ramsay
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