Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:03:38 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, kleon@bellsouth.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? Message-ID: <199706230803.JAA09485@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Jun 1997 23:09:06 PDT." <Pine.BSI.3.94.970622230509.19045A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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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.
Which brings us back to the question. Why does .ascii have non-ascii
characters. A diff between .latin1 and .ascii says that only the
'-' at the end of lines is missing in the .ascii version :( Surely
.latin1 should have the overstrikes and .ascii shouldn't ?
Is this a "sgml" bug ?
> Annelise
>
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