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Subject: Re: Handbook - ascii form?? 
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> [-questions removed to reduce cross-list spammage]
> 
> > Has anyone any objections (cc'd to freebsd-hackers) to me adding
> > a .txt version of the handbook & FAQ ?
> 
> What do you mean, exactly?  Check in ascii versions?  Yeeks, no.  How
> is the existing method of producing ISO latin1 versions so onerous,
> exactly?

Sorry - handbook.ascii is already generated.  I was being
stupid.  I can appreciate that some people have problems with
latin - DOS/Win stuff won't grok the ^Hs.  I just didn't realize
that .ascii is already there - despite being in that code only
a few weeks ago.

In short, oops.  Bad day !

> 						Jordan

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