Em Seg, 2004-08-16 às 09:01, Stephen Kühn escreveu: > On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 17:21, Amy wrote: > > Stephen Kühn wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 17:56, Amy wrote: > > > > > > > > >>I'm not familiar with postscript files at all, Anything special about > > >>them, or is it just basically a sort of text document or something? > > >> > > >>As for the pdf file option, it's nice to know I can do that, but I > > >>suspect it won't work for me, since pdfs and I usually don't agree all > > >>that well. I'm sorely in need of an update on my computer's hardware, > > >>and I suspect that might help me when dealing with pdfs, but for now, I > > >>avoid them when I can. > > >> > > >>At any rate, thanks for the help! ^_^ > > > > > > > > > Sorry - that was a first for me: pdf's and you don't agree? > > > Have you been attacked by a raging PDF or something or am I having a > > > flashback here? > > > -- > > > stephen kuhn - proprietor > > > > > > > I'm not sure what it is, but pdfs drive me crazy... maybe it's just the > > programs I've used to access them, but pdfs always seem slow to me. It > > could also be my hardware, I will be the first to admit I'm in serious > > need of an upgrade, but I don't have the money for it at the moment. > > > > At any rate, I use xpdf to load pdfs (mostly rule books for rpgs I'm > > involved in online) and get frustrated with how slow they let me move. I > > know I tried Adobe's reader they released for Linux, but that was worse > > than xpdf except for printing support. Though there's a chance that I > > didn't have the printer set up correctly the first time, and I haven't > > tried to print any pdfs lately. *shrugs* > > > > You didn't answer my question about postscript files though... what's so > > special about them? > > Pffftp! > Postscripts are going to be just as slow as PDF's if you're on a slow > boxen...so it might be quicker to read the man pages at the terminal... > > Then again, it might be the situation where (as in the case of my > girlfriend) someone else takes care of whatever you need...just a matter > of convincing... > And, of course, he can also save a man page to a regular .txt file and open it with Gedit or any other text editor. For example:
$ man cdrecord > cdrecordmanpage -- Josenildo Marques ICQ 289971493 +++ Homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net usuário Linux registrado No. 341648 ********************** "The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional." Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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