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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: Elvis 1.4, part 1 if 8
Message-ID: <16591999@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 5 Dec 90 10:42:43 GMT
In article <2196@tuvie.UUCP> hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer) writes:
>Yes, we have the same problems. All the <ESC>s have been
>stripped from the .doc files.
>
>Kirk, if you repost the .doc files, please choose a format that
>is more robust against malicious mailers. Uuencoded compressed
>tar-files maybe?
Better yet, leave the @*$ escape codes out of the doc files in the
first place!! Post raw *roff source if you want users to have fancy
manpages -- otherwise give us straight text, not @*#$&@(#$& uuencoded
compressed tar files in a SOURCE newsgroup!!
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proud to speak to a Congressman. -- Will Rogers /__/ \ tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM