From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 23 10:49:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA17793 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:49:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA17788 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:49:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA00920; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:35:41 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199706231735.KAA00920@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:35:41 -0700 (MST) Cc: chuckr@glue.umd.edu, brian@awfulhak.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, kleon@bellsouth.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Annelise Anderson" at Jun 22, 97 11:09:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. Just a clarification: the FTP server "lets" anyone download any data in binary or text format. This is not a file attribute that the FTP server controls. Most likely, you are using a WWW browser which is making a bad assumption about the ".txt" extension. You should modify it's "options" or manually edit the "mailcap" file to remove the clear-text association for the ".txt" extension. Alternately, obtain a browser that works. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.