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.  With this new option, the contents of the file will be
> displayed  as it is,  without  assuming  the trailing 8  characters as
> line numbers.
 
Sounds good.
 
> Also RAW causes non-printable characters to appear as '.'.
 
Whoops!  When did this sneak in?  I think that filtering of non-printable
characters would be a good option to have, but I don't think it should be
folded into the ;RAW option.  To me, RAW implies 'unprocessed', but clearly
this character translation would produce 'processed' output.  Suppose I have
a file which may contain digits and/or escape sequences and I want to send
it to a printer.  I might try:
 
  :file mylist;dev=LP
  :print myfile;RAW >*mylist
 
But if ;RAW also translates my escape sequences to dots, I won't get the
desired results.  Come to think of it, this could even apply to files I
print to the terminal if the file contains HP terminal escapes that I want
to be used.  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]
  |
  \--- ROTFL!  I forgot about that... :>
 
;UNRAW is fine with me.  ;FMT is a bit ambiguous as it doesn't clearly
identify what kind of formatting is being done.
 
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