On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 09:35:08AM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote:
> Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:54:44PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > > Hi All People,
> > >
> > >
> > > but following strange symbols appears inside their content
> > >
> > > 2#2.#.3#3.#. I#I/#/O#O A#Ad#dd#dr#re#es#ss#se#es#s,#,
> > > e#et#tc#c.#.
> > >
> > > 22..22.. HHooww aa CCoommppuutteerr FFiinnddss DDeevviicceess
> > > ((aanndd ccoonnvveerrsseellyy))
> > >
> >
> > Try 'cat $HOWTO | col -bx | less'.
> >
>
> why is he having to do this? I use a browser (netscape), and less
> all the time with no problems. Just surious.
I used to know exactly why, but escapes me ATM ;( You notice that text
HOWTOs from LDP don't have this annoyance, so it is not all by any
means. I find it occasionally in the /usr/doc/* docs that are package
specific. I think it is an artifact of the original doc being written
in sgml, and then converted to other formats like HTML, PDF, txt. The
text converter is either broken, or wrong option was used in this case
and no one caught it. Dosemu I remember as one package that had this
annoyance.
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