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Date:      Mon, 15 Feb 1999 01:01:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      rick hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cleaning a text file
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.990215005846.20451E-100000@dsinw.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990215195935.12817@welearn.com.au>

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> Is there some simple unix way to either
> check that all funny characters have been removed,
> or better,
> to get a list of the characters that might still need replacing?

	Sue, a quick a dirty way I've been using is to email it as a text 
message back to myself using pine. Save and edit off the headers and 
it'll be about 99% complete. Usually you see those funky characters 
because they cut and paste from Word for Windows into their E-mail program.


					Rick

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