On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 01:57:45AM -0400, James Michael Fultz wrote:
> * "Wu, Yue" <vano...@gmail.com> [2009-09-25 13:22 +0800]:
> [ ... ]
> > Hi James,
> >
> > I've tried `col -b` and `col -bp`, both produce errors and stop immatiatly.
> >
> > y...@bsd ~ > cat manual.txt | col -b -p
> >
> > 9.14. Default editor Function Bindings
> >
> > col: Illegal byte sequence
>
> Curious. While the '-p' option to col may not be a cure-all for
> dealing with unsupported character sets, I don't see any such
> character at that location either. Looking at a hexdump of that
> section of the manual, aside from the embedded backspace
> characters, it appears to be ASCII.
>
> Perhaps your copy of the manual is still yet corrupted? Here are
> the MD5 checksums for the files I have downloaded.
>
> dff620858d4aa4d9df7b46a02ede482b manual.txt
> 832c15a5325130eaa5d81d038e373aaa manual.txt.gz
>
> 'manual.txt' being a decompressed copy of the downloaded
> 'manual.txt.gz'.
y...@bsd ~ > md5 manual.txt.gz
MD5 (manual.txt.gz) = 832c15a5325130eaa5d81d038e373aaa
y...@bsd ~ > md5 manual.txt
MD5 (manual.txt) = dff620858d4aa4d9df7b46a02ede482b
y...@bsd ~ > cat manual.txt | col -b -p
[...omitted most parts....]
9.14. Default editor Function Bindings
col: Illegal byte sequence
List_of_Examplesy
using col -b without -p produces the same error.
Still want to say, if manual.txt.gzip isn't a real plain text, it should be
renamed to a more proper and clear name. And please put a full version of
manual.txt[http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.txt] on the offical website.
What do you think?
--
Hi,
Wu, Yue
