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From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De>
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Subject: Re: where is FAQ.ascii?
In-Reply-To: <199705050343.UAA23464@psln1.psln.com> from Daniel Keller at "May 4, 97 09:13:19 pm"
To: dkeller@psln.com (Daniel Keller)
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 11:09:58 +0200 (MET DST)
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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