Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!uflorida!haven!adm!cmcl2!rna!amms4!hjg From: hjg@amms4.UUCP (Harry Gross) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: uudecode problems Message-ID: <982@amms4.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 89 14:18:02 GMT References: <21287@louie.udel.EDU> <316@galadriel.bt.co.uk> Reply-To: hjg@amms4.UUCP (Harry Gross) Organization: Eagle Clothes, Inc., New York, NY Lines: 19 In article <316@galadriel.bt.co.uk> pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French) writes: >From article <21287@louie.udel.EDU>, by HIGGS_M%P1.LANCSP.AC.UK@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Mike Higgs): >There is no way I have found of putting the ^M character into a serch sequence. >However ... all lines end with it so you can simply delete the last character >of each line using : I found a way - use elle. The control character can be included in a search command by preceding it with the character ctrl-\ (I think that was what it was, my docs are at home, and I am at work). At any rate, the specific character is in the elle manual, and it works just fine. A single command will remove all of the ^M's from the file. Cheers, -- Harry Gross | reserved for | something really Internet: hjg@amms4.UUCP (we're working on registering)| clever - any UUCP: {jyacc, rna, bklyncis}!amms4!hjg | suggestions?