how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Jay O'Brien
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

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Jay O'Brien
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

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
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.

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
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

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hmm, Would using the command: zcat filename work? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-08-23 07:16, Bill Schoolcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, Would using the command: zcat filename 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

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread R. W.
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

Re: how to view .ascii file?

2004-08-23 Thread Jay O'Brien
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.