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Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 21:56:08 -0500
From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
To: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Garbled text in handbook
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On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 06:29:31PM -0800, Rudy Gireyev wrote:
> Downloaded ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/docs/handbook-ascii.gz yesterday.
> Did gunzip handbook-ascii.gz
> Then did view handbook-ascii
> There are a bunch of unprintable characters all over the file.
> 
> Uttsa Mader Here!!!
> 
> Rudy
> 
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Try `more handbook.ascii' or `less handbook.ascii'. I believe those
"unprintable characters" are printable; they are just backspaces (^H)
for boldfacing and underlining.
  
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Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.