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[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-03-02 11:27, Mario Lobo <mario.lobo at ipad.com.br> wrote:
> On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:27, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> > On 3/1/07, Kevin Kinsey <kdk at 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 :)