Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:50:21 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Mario Lobo <mario.lobo@ipad.com.br>, FreeBSD <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: defrag Message-ID: <45ECE4FD.4060902@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20070302162855.GA7250@kobe.laptop> References: <539c60b90703010849x33dd4bbbt8f6ca6aa0c8e83a0@mail.gmail.com> <45E70B8C.8010602@daleco.biz> <e572718c0703010927p57aa42f8kd7765f0674eb80d0@mail.gmail.com> <200703021127.42170.mario.lobo@ipad.com.br> <20070302162855.GA7250@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-03-02 11:27, Mario Lobo <mario.lobo@ipad.com.br> wrote: >> On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:27, Pietro Cerutti wrote: >>> On 3/1/07, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> 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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