Elvis 1.4, part 1 if 8

Tom Neff tneff at bfmny0.BFM.COM
Wed Dec 5 21:42:43 AEST 1990


In article <2196 at tuvie.UUCP> hp at 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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