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Date:      07 Mar 1998 15:19:33 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        stuart henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: ps2pdf (was: newbies mailing list)
Message-ID:  <p1i1zwevb0q.fsf@panke.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:20:52 %2B1030
References:  <199803030441.VAA11558@const.> <34FBE0CB.C1697F2D@internationalschool.co.uk> <19980304102052.13296@freebie.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes:
> 2.  The ASCII (latin1) version of the handbook doesn't contain any
>     high-bit-set characters.  

Wrong. handbook.latin1 contain 8 bit characters, e.g., `Søren'.

>     The only unusual character it contains
>     is a ^H (backspace), which even on DOS impact printers will create
>     a bolder impression.  In UNIX, you can (and I do) remove it with
>     sed 's:.^H::g'.  

better:
	$ col -b < handbook.latin1 > /tmp/handbook.latin1.stripped

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Wolfram Schneider   <wosch@freebsd.org>   http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/

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