Re: bugs in program "head" and maybe "tail"

[Philip Rowlands]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, julien wrote:

> head (GNU coreutils) 5.97
>
> in shell(bash):
>
> $ man -t ls > ls.ps && ps2pdf ls.ps && rm ls.ps
> $ head ls.pdf
>
> the caracteres are strange !

PDF files contain non-ASCII characters, which will not print well on 
the terminal. What output were you expecting?


Cheers,
Phil