[aclug-L] Re: re compusa and linux applications

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No... less foobar.doc would be much worse... it's not an ASCII/text-based
file... it's binary.  If you're lucky, you might actually come across
semgents of recognizable text... but any graphics, forms, formatting,
margins, etc, will totally NOT work with less.


On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 11:50:46AM -0500, Lowell wrote:
> John Phillips wrote:
> > 
> > less docfilename
> 
> alas, here is a sample of "less foo.abw." I assume a
> .doc file would
> come out approximately the same. (?) 
> 
> <p props="margin-left:0.5000in;
> text-align:center"><c props="font-size:24pt;
> font-style:italic; font-weight:bold">Troublesome
> Pairs Exercise</c></p>
> <p props="margin-left:0.5000in;
> text-align:center"></p>
> <p props="margin-left:0.5000in; text-align:left"><c
> props="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;
> font-style:italic; font-weight:bold">          
> Directions: </c><c props="font-family:Times New
> Roman; font-size:10pt; font-style:normal;
> font-weight:normal">Choose the proper verb form from
> the two choices offered, and </c></p>
> <p props="margin-left:0.5000in; text-align:left"><c
> props="font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt;
> font-style:normal;
> font-weight:normal">                      write it
> in the blank  to the right.</c></p>
> 
> I have to look hard to find anything from the actual
> text because
> it's highly formatted; perhaps there's another step
> I could take
> to strip the formatting info, but less doesn't do it
> by itself.
> 
> Lowell
> 
> "Never assume malice where incompetence suffices."
> 
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