Jon Dierks wrote:
>At 06:04 PM 1/10/96 +0500, M Gopalakrishnan wrote:
>> Based on the customer requests, the new option RAW for the PRINT command
>> will be added.
>
>Sounds good.
>
>> Also RAW causes non-printable characters to appear as '.'.
>
>Whoops!  When did this sneak in? ...RAW implies 'unprocessed', but clearly
>this character translation would produce 'processed' output.
>...  I'd recommend a separate pair of options for the dot-filtering.
>How about ;DOT and ;UNDOT(default) or maybe ;FILTER and ;UNFILTER(default)?
>
>> It is also consistent to have a option which is the opposite...
>...
>>   There were 3 names suggested for this option
>>
>>     . UNRAW [similar to UNN -> UNNumbered]
>> /-> . COOKED
>> |   . FMT   [for FORMATTED]
 
Or how about "RAW" for completely unprocessed, "COOKED" for normal
(default) formatting, and "SINGED" for raw-with-dots?
 
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