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From: ching@amd.UUCP (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Megamax Include problem solved - dialog box bug?
Message-ID: <1880@amd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 12:33:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 30 12:33:36 1985
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Reply-To: ching@amd.UUCP (Mike Ching)
Organization: AMD, Santa Clara, CA
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Summary: Really how to search/replace special characters

In article <> berry@tolerant.UUCP (David Berry) writes:
>> Well, I solved my include file problem, but I don't know what was wrong.
>> I dinked with the line in question to no avail (couldn't find any
>> magic characters, but then I didn't go to the extreme of Fedit), so
>> I finally just chopped out about 10 lines (5 either side of the problem)
>> and typed it in again.  That fixed it.  I am buying a garlic garland
>> to put on top of the disk drive this afternoon.
>
>...
>                                                        It is then
>relatively easy to manually remove them (sure would be nice if
>there were a way to specify special characters (tabs/enter/return/etc.)
>to search/replace...)

If special characters exist in the file, they can be specified in a
search/replace by cutting them and pasting them in the search field.
I frequently have to remove linefeeds from files transferred from
another computer and just cut one from the text, start the search
dialog, and paste the linefeed in the box.