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Date:      Sat, 03 Jan 1998 12:01:58 +0000
From:      Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>
To:        Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Garbled text in handbook
Message-ID:  <34AE28B5.A6EFC811@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>
References:  <19980104022931.27128.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com>

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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

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> Rudy
>
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