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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.
>

ascii handbook is formatted as output of nroff. (i.e.  \bs\bs to hidlight
symbol and so on)
try
more handbook
and look on output

> Uttsa Mader Here!!!
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> Rudy
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