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From: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu>
To: Steve the teco <steve@red.hot.net.au>, questions@freebsd.org
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:02:00 -0600
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> The problem is the text is full of printer codes
> <SNIP>
> ^[^[&a8R^[^[&f0S^[^[&a4C^[^[&f0S^[*c2221A^[*c95B^[*c15G^[*c2P^[*c4A^
[*c1852B^[*c0P^[*c2221A^[*c4B^[*c0P^[*p+59Y^[*p
> +200X^[^[(s0p10h0s3b4099TPROJECT
> COST^[*p+330X^[*p-20Y^[^[(s0p17h0s3b4099T1999^[*p+40Y^[*p-
> 85XActual^[*p-40Y^[*p+70
> X2000^[*p+40Y^[*p-89XBudget^[*p-40Y^[^[&f0S
> </SNIP>

Someone probably already beat me to this, but the easiest way is to 
write a shell or Perl script to look for control characters and remove 
them. I have something similar at work that looks for ^M when I receive 
text files written in MS format to remove all the ^M's.




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