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Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? 
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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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