Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 00:09:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Cc: kleon@bellsouth.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970622000520.16306B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <199706220348.EAA07445@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > Just sed the backspaces out: > > $ sed 's/^H.//g' handbook.latin1 >handbook.ascii > > (type ^v^h to get a real ^H) Actually this won't work. There aren't any ^H. in the file; what there are, instead, are lots of double letters and lots of underscores. In other words a filed attempt to convert something to ascii (or plain text) has already been made. There's always the option of testing proposed solutions before posting them..... Annelise
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