Hal Burgiss wrote:
> > > Try 'cat $HOWTO | col -bx | less'.
> > >
> >
> > why is he having to do this? I use a browser (netscape), and less
> > all the time with no problems. Just surious.
>
> I used to know exactly why, but escapes me ATM ;( You notice that text
> HOWTOs from LDP don't have this annoyance, so it is not all by any
> means. I find it occasionally in the /usr/doc/* docs that are package
> specific. I think it is an artifact of the original doc being written
> in sgml, and then converted to other formats like HTML, PDF, txt. The
> text converter is either broken, or wrong option was used in this case
> and no one caught it. Dosemu I remember as one package that had this
> annoyance.
Huh. Thanks for the insight. I did not know about the cols command so I
learned something else today. That is a good thing.
Bret
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