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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Diercks -------- mail: [log in to unmask] Programmer/Analyst /|| | chat: powwow:[log in to unmask] Computing Services /_|| | WWW : http://rowlf.csv.anderson.edu/ Anderson University / ||__| tel : (317)641-4305 Anderson, IN 46012 -------- fax : (317)641-3851 o________________________________________________________ ___ _\_, \=`==^==> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^