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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??
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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