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Re: debian programmers manual not OK?



> Hi Klee,
> 
> Thanks for replying. Here is what i did:
> 1)gzip -d programmer.ps.gz
> 2)transfer to a msdos system with ftp binary transfer
> 3)print programmer.ps (on a postscript printer)
> 
> This gives me one page with a line of garbage like 00FC0000FC0000FC00 
> etc. and tons of empty pages.
> 

You will probably need to use a utility like unix2dos to take care
of the CR+LF at the end of each line of the file. DOS and unix use
different things to signal the end of a line in files.

I hope that helps.

Ramos.

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J.R.Goncalves@reading.ac.uk * ramos@fisica.ufc.br * ramos@debian.org
Dept. of Physics  * Reading Univ., England  * http://www.rdg.ac.uk/Physics     
Depart. de Fisica * Univ. Federal do Ceara' * http://www.fisica.ufc.br
Debian GNU/Linux  * Debian Developer        * http://www.debian.org



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