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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: /usr/share/doc
Date: 17 Sep 1996 19:26:15 +0100
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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Jeffery T. White (zellion@cyberwind.com) wrote:
: There are several directories under here (/usr/share/doc/smm) that appear
: to have some sort of documentation in them. They each have a Title.ascii.gz
: and Contents.ascii.gz file and many subdirectories. What program reads and
: displays these files? I've tried gunziping them but the remaing text is
: still formatted. Are these the tared versions of the man pages or something
: else?

These aren't formatted - they just have lots of ^H's in them.  This is a
backspace, allowing programs such as more & less to "highlight" things.

The string x^Hx^Hx^Hx^Hx will end up with a "highlit" x character.

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....