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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 29 Feb 2008.
Re: Text editor

Re: Text editor

In <Xns9A53E5EC8A86antontxtgmailcom@85.214.90.236>,
Anton <anton.txt@g[oogle}mail.com> mentions:
>col...@yahoo.com
>
>> troff/groff/nroff and/or friends format man pages for display on ascii 
>> (and other) terminals and printing.
>
>  Tinkering with groff now.
>
>> I think (la)tex can be told that the printer can only handle fixed width 
>> fonts, including the spacing,
>
>  Wow, never would have though. Any hint about how to do it?
> 
>> Another thought is to markup with html, use a text browser like lynx to 
>> format and print (to a printer or file).
>
>  Can lynx (or any other text browser) save a page just the  way
>  it "sees" it? Copy-past does the trick?

Sure. 

I did a wrapper around it:

	finger hil...@weird.podro.com

 	finger ron...@weird.podro.com

I figure ascii people can appreciate the linkage between 'finger' and
this new-fangled "myspace" heheh

(You'll want to pipe the output into less or something, it's not 80 column)

Jamie
-- 
http://www.geniegate.com                    Custom web programming
Perl * Java * UNIX                        User Management Solutions

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