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To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 21 Jun 1997 21:49:52 PDT."
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[.....]
> Now here we have a nice offer from someone who will convert a troff
> version to plain text.  How about taking him up on it?
> 
> 				Annelise
> 
> 
> 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)
> > 
> > > Keith
> > > kleon@bellsouth.net
> > 
> > -- 
> > Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
> >       <http://www.awfulhak.org>
> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....

This looks more like a suggested way of removing overstrikes
to me.  That was certainly the intention.

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....