[cs615asa] Question about HW6

[Jan Schaumann]

Zhitao Chen <zchen69 at stevens.edu> wrote:
 
> 1. Just want to ensure there are some unreadable characters in
> EC2-BACKUP(1) manual e.g.

That was a result of using en_US.UTF-8 as the LANG environment variable,
allowing the manual page to use non-ascii characters such as e.g. the
n-dash.  Setting LANG=C before converting the manual page fixes that:

LANG=C nroff -man ec2-backup.1 | col -b > ec2-backup.txt

Refresh your browser and you should see only ascii characters.

> 2. In the "DETAILS" part of manual page, the sentence:
> 
> ec2-backup can pass the archive it creates through a filter command on either the local or the remote host. This allows the user to e.g. per†form encryption of the backup.
> 
> The filter command has any restriction? Or it can run anything with user intention?

The filter is not in any way restricted.  It's a filter: whatever is
provided will be executed (either locally or remotely) with stdin being
fed the output of tar(1).

-Jan