From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 15:34:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB6B37B401 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sage.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D73A143F75 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:34:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.9/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h3FMYeKk097112; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id h3FMYd8X096877; Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:34:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:34:39 -0700 From: Gary D Kline To: Matthew Seaman , Gary D Kline , Joshua Lokken , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030415223439.GF95873@tao.thought.org> References: <200304151041.57911.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> <20030415180909.GC72565@joloxbox.joshualokken.com> <20030415203906.GB95873@tao.thought.org> <20030415213930.GA51229@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030415213930.GA51229@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 16 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Subject: Re: dos2unix??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:34:48 -0000 On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:39:31PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 01:39:06PM -0700, Gary D Kline wrote: > > > > May I leverage off this post to see if anyone has a solution to > > scraping away thoseflea-bitten Losedows '0x92' and '0x93' > > characters and replacing with a simpl apostroph ('). > > > > If there is already somethng hacked, I would be greatly obliged > > for a pointer. > > In web pages? You can fix up such html entities with tidy (ports > www/tidy or www/tidy-devel) --- the tidy-devel port has the '-bare' > option that appears to do exactly the sort of transformation you > require. See http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html#bare > Thanks for the pointer Matthew. Looks like the devel vers will do the job.... gary PS: with 'tr' I would havde to run it more than once... . -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix