Date: 02 Jul 1997 16:28:51 +0200 From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/misc/viz - Imported sources Message-ID: <87afk5y1cs.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?='s message of Wed, 2 Jul 1997 18:00:07 %2B0400 (MSD) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970702175945.3512A-100000@nagual.pp.ru>
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=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Thomas Gellekum wrote:
>
> > Import of viz port. viz converts invisible characters into a
> > visible form.
>
> We already have 'vis' with the same function
Interesting. I never noticed that one. ;-)
>From a quick glance over the man pages the major difference seems to
be:
By default, the input is treated as a sequence of charac-
ters. However, a file format may be specified, in which
case viz can handle files containing a mixture of data of
arbitrary types.
The format can contain include repeat counts and comments
to be embedded in the output stream.
Uninteresting data can be skipped over and not printed on
stdout.
Additional flexibility is provided through user-settable
variables, which can be used as repeat counts. Simple
math can be done on the variables, and chars, shorts, or
integers from the input stream can be stored in them.
tg
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