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Re: mutt manual encoding



On 10/8/07, Joseph <syscon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When I copied mutt manual to my home directory (for printing) and open
> it with nano or any other editor like openoffice all I got is a strange
> characters:

> file /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.16/manual.txt
> /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.16/manual.txt: ASCII English text, with
> overstriking
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^

The last is the key word. It's like a man page - it uses backspacing
(the ctrl-h characters) to make a boldface effect.

Pipe it through 'col -b' to remove the problem characters.

Breen

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Breen Mullins
Menlo Park, Calif.