From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 27 15:55: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1B937B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:55:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D9343E9C for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:55:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulbeard@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (12-231-115-57.client.attbi.com[12.231.115.57]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <2002112723545100200solcve>; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:54:51 +0000 Message-ID: <3DE55B47.7040504@mac.com> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 15:54:47 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021116 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP access via email (Was - OFF TOPIC - please help!!! etc...) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew.Hodgson@lpc.tv wrote: > Thanks for sending me the sh man page Paul (Beard) - > unfortunately it was > corrupted, with strange formatting and characters. This looks > similar to > when I have tried to pipe a manpage to a file, e.g. > > # man sh > ~/sh.txt > > Maybe one of the list members could shed light on why this > corruption takes > place? Yup, I forgot some of the *roff incantations that were necessary, and then I saw Dan Nelson's vastly more useful post. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ Renning's Maxim: Man is the highest animal. Man does the classifying. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message