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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:20:41 +0100
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Mark S. Reglewski wrote on Friday, March 23, 2007 4:50 PM::
> Forgive a naive question from a naive user: should there be any
> formatting codes/escape sequences at all to work around in what's
> supposed to be a plaintext file?
> /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.4.2.2/manual.txt gives this as it's last line:
> "This document was written in SGML, and then rendered using the
> sgml-tools package." Haven't the utilities used to render the
> plaintext file from its SGML source left unwanted gunk in this
> instance? 

This file is not meant to be a plaintext file.  It is meant to be read
using the F1 key from inside mutt.  /etc/Muttrc sets up the F1 key to 
invoke less.

You may find that there are a few non-ASCII characters which are shown
as e.g. <B7>.  If so, you'll need to edit /etc/Muttrc (or better, copy
it to ~/.muttrc)  Find the macro definitions for <f1> and add the -r
option to the less command.


Phil

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