Date: Sun, 18 Dec 1994 16:55:50 -0800 (PST) From: gibbs@uclink.berkeley.edu (Justin Theodore Gibbs) To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: vi question Message-ID: <199412190055.QAA16420@uclink.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.941218192040.2324A-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Dec 18, 94 07:27:54 pm
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> > I wanted to browse a text file I got from Seagate about a new disk of mine. > The file had a bunch of non-printable chars in it. Usually, I go into > vi, and using the ^V control char prefix, I edit out all the control > characters that make things hard to read. This time, the characters > involved must be part of the IBM graphics character set, and instead of > getting stuff like "^T" (or somesuch) I found single characters, in vi, > being represented as "0xc4", and that is (in fact) one of the chars I found. > > Does anyone happen to know if there's a way, inside vi, to represent a > character such as "0xc4" as a single char, so I can use it in a > substitution? > > Alternatively, does anyone know how I could display the file with the > character set that would be appropriate to the file, so I could see the > snazzy graphics stuff? Or maybe print it? I've a postscript printer... > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- > Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data > chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. > 7608 Topton St. | > New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Esix SVR4) and n3lxx (FreeBSD) > (301) 459-2316 | > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Cat the file while on a vty. Cons25 should handle most of the characters. -- Justin
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