I had not thought about using the Posix/UNIX tools. I must admit, I  
wound up ftping the file off the machine,
bringing it up in my normal editor, then sending it back. That took  
about 90 seconds. :)

I have got to figure out how to get Samba running on Telzy.

  Or if I had a C compiler, I could try to port THE over. :)

-Paul

On Nov 9, 2008, at 3:35 AM, Lars Appel wrote:

> Paul,
>
> two possible approaches come to my mind, even if without QEDIT...
>
> :xeq /bin/tr &
> :  "'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'" <IN  
> >OUT
>
> :xeq /bin/awk &
> :  "'{print toupper($0)}'" <IN >OUT
>
> The two syntax examples are for using the Posix tools from the MPE
> prompt and assume the input file is named IN. The output will be to
> a TEMP file named OUT, so you may want to :SAVE OUT afterwards.
>
> (The long lines have been wrapped with & continuation for  
> readability).
>
> The syntax for using tr and awk from the shell is pretty similar.
> Just omit the xeq command and the extra pair of " qoute characters.
>
> Lars.
>
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