Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 21:56:08 -0500 From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Garbled text in handbook Message-ID: <19980103215608.04696@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <19980104022931.27128.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>; from Rudy Gireyev on Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 06:29:31PM -0800 References: <19980104022931.27128.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 06:29:31PM -0800, Rudy Gireyev wrote: > Downloaded ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/docs/handbook-ascii.gz yesterday. > Did gunzip handbook-ascii.gz > Then did view handbook-ascii > There are a bunch of unprintable characters all over the file. > > Uttsa Mader Here!!! > > Rudy > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Try `more handbook.ascii' or `less handbook.ascii'. I believe those "unprintable characters" are printable; they are just backspaces (^H) for boldfacing and underlining. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr.
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