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You can easily make your own plain text version [0]: $ wget https://www.bsdfrog.org/pub/events/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.pdf $ pdft
by jlgaddis 10y ago
You can easily make your own plain text version [0]:
$ wget https://www.bsdfrog.org/pub/events/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.pdf
$ pdftotext \
my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.pdf \
my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.txt
Or, if you prefer HTML [1]:
$ pdftohtml -i -nomerge -s \
my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.pdf \
my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.html
ETA: Surprisingly, the PDF is quite lightweight. File sizes, in bytes:
PDF: 118,971
TXT: 90,912
HTML: 384,256
[0]: http://evilrouters.net/foo/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper.txt http://evilrouters.net/foo/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-Asia...
[1]: http://evilrouters.net/foo/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-AsiaBSDCon2017-paper-html.html http://evilrouters.net/foo/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-Asia...
- jakebasile 10y agoI have my issues with HN, but this type of comment is one of parts I relish. Thanks!
- jlgaddis 10y agoIndeed, learning new little tricks like this is one of the great things about HN! Many times, I get more "value" from the comments than I do the submissions.
- JdeBP 10y agoTo be more in the spirit of the paper, you could perhaps give your instructions in terms of FreeBSD's own fetch command or OpenBSD's own ftp command, rather than wget from ports. (-: