Help ID characters

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 02:30P Tue Dec 07 2004, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:

> Brian K. White propounded (on Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:14:25PM -0500):
> | From: "Lerebours, Jose" <Jose.Lerebours at EagleGL.com>
> | >SCO UNIX based ...
> | >
> | >Trying to use import ascii to read and process EDI file. Client
> | >sent me file which has
> | >
> | >a) when I cat file <85> between data blocks
> | >b) when I vi file \20 between data blocks
> | >
> | >I've tried using \20 as field and record delimiter
> | >but it wont take.
> | >
> | >
> | >What do you think I should use?
> | 
> | The "cat" comment above makes no sense, but the vi does, and based on 
that, 
> | octal 20 = decimal 16, thus:
> | 
> | chr("16")
> 
> Chr("16") is Control-P, and in vi, it looks like ^P, not like \20.
> 
> So I, for one, still don't know what Jose is looking at.
> 
> Jose, run the file through less.  What then?

Why not run it through 'hd' and remove all doubt?


Jim 
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