Re: viewing the manual (was "Re: way to prefix ...")
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 09:17:52PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> Henry --
> ...and then henry nelson said...
> % "%O", the rendition gets totally garbled. (On my machine the only software
> % which can display that file correctly is Lynx. I assume Lynx is stripping
> % all the superfluous, non-ascii codes.)
> Admittedly the .txt would imply plain ascii, but does less or even more
> have a problem with the file?
I have problems viewing my locally-generated manual.txt using 'less'.
'more' handles it just fine (displaying the text with escape sequences
as bold.) I suspect that my version of sgml2txt is at fault, rather
than anything in the mutt source code. If I knew a little more about
sgmltools, I could probably come up with a way to disable escape
sequences in the output.. anyone else know?
(NB, technically, even those escape codes are still ASCII. If I am
not mistaken, ASCII covers all character codes from 0 to 127, which
includes for instance, character 27, the escape character)
Sayonara,
Allister
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