Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:24:06 -0700 (MST) From: ML Duke <mlduke@concentric.net> To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: vi Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812151652320.481-100000@concentric.net>
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Just had a little experience some others might be interested in. Received a word 97 file from a client. StarOffice would no open it in any form. Tried editing it with ee, with an eye to edit out the garbage (a _whole lot_ of it) & print the 1.5 pages of useful data. The file defied being edited in ee. Enter vi. Using the "de" command=delete to end of word, the garbage preceeding the good text vanished very quickly, then "dd" quickly eliminated the garbage following the good text. Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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