From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Dec 15 18:24:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06750 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:24:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.119.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06745 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:24:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlduke@newman.concentric.net) Received: from cliff.concentric.net (cliff [206.173.119.90]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/11/30 5.11)) id VAA10084; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:23:57 -0500 (EST) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts002d46.mer-id.concentric.net (ts002d46.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.106]) by cliff.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id VAA28933; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:23:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:24:06 -0700 (MST) From: ML Duke X-Sender: mlduke@concentric.net To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: vi Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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