From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 15 01:03:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA00865 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 01:03:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00860 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 01:03:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: (from hamellr@localhost) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id BAA22883; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 01:01:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 01:01:12 -0800 (PST) From: rick hamell To: Sue Blake cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cleaning a text file In-Reply-To: <19990215195935.12817@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message