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Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? 
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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 04:48:38 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> Howdy,
> 
> I just tried to download the latest version of the Handbook in ascii
> (and latin1)[don't have postscript printer]. 
> 
> Anyway, the file is not straight text (extranious overprint, backspace,
> etc characters) under DOS or BSD. This makes it very difficult to RTFM.
> I realize that much works is being done and the handbook is secondary.
> When can a clean ascii copy be expected? 
> 
> If you can upload the groff'd copy I'll run the ascii version and send
> it back.
> 
> Thanks for your time

Just sed the backspaces out:

$ sed 's/^H.//g' handbook.latin1 >handbook.ascii

(type ^v^h to get a real ^H)

> Keith
> kleon@bellsouth.net

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