Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 11:09:58 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: dkeller@psln.com (Daniel Keller) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where is FAQ.ascii? Message-ID: <199705050909.LAA22591@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <199705050343.UAA23464@psln1.psln.com> from Daniel Keller at "May 4, 97 09:13:19 pm"
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> I tried to view FAQ.latin1 in wordpad in Win95 and with vi in FreeBSD, > neither one displayed it correctly. > What should I use to view these latin1 files? I only work with the locally installed FAQ and handbook files, so what follows might not apply to the files on the FTP server. There are some control characters like ^H in FAQ.latin1 -- and in FAQ.ascii as well to produce hiliting on the printer or terminal. It does the right thing when using lpr(1) or more(1). For *.gz files use zmore(1) to view them on the terminal. Don't use vi, since it won't send control characters like ^H (backspace) to the terminal, instead it would display the two printable characters `^' and `H'. This feature is *not* what you want when reading FAQ.ascii or FAQ.latin1. Wolfgang
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