Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 02:09:24 -0500 (EST) From: Kelly Hendrix <kelly@compuage.com> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Dru <genisis@istar.ca>, Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Command to Make "Printable" Text Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101200136330.590-100000@hnet04.hendrix.net> In-Reply-To: <20010119135402.A8945@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>
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Greetings :) On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Crist J. Clark had this to say: CJC>On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:27:43PM -0500, Dru wrote: CJC>> CJC>> What shell are you using Crist? CJC> CJC>In the example, tcsh. TERM is xterm-color. Using csh and TERM=xterm. Essentially a subset CJC>> I just created a script called test from the tcsh shell, issued: CJC>> CJC>> col -b < test > clean CJC>> cat clean Done this and cat test | col -b > clean CJC>> CJC>> and she looked good. I didn't have any control characters except for the CJC>> strings in my customized prompt. CJC> CJC>I just tried again. Same problems. My output wasn't clean, but all the control characters were gone. For some reason col -b was leaving behind the K in ^[[K. At this point it was at least reasonable to edit. Sorry I couldn't be of more help Crist. Kelly -- ______________________________________________________________________ | There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a | | miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. | | | | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | |______________________________________________________________________| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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