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From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form??
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On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:

> OK, there's one problem with that.  I think that the ftp server is letting
> folks download handbook.ascii as ascii text, which is eating the backspace
> keys.  Gotta download this as binary!

That's right, if it's downloaded as a binary file it retains the ^H etc.
formatting codes; otherwise it doesn't.

Annelise