[H-GEN] Telnet not working

Hilton Travis QuarkComputers at email.com
Wed Apr 28 22:21:22 EDT 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs "Hilton Travis" <QuarkComputers at email.com>)

> actually I meant :%s/$/^M/
>
> If you have a dos text file, then to remove the silly line ends (in vi)
> you go :%s/^M// to remove those pesky ctrl-M chars at the end of the
> lines. So why can't you just add a few to the end of lines when you want
> to go the other way? vim seems to be a bit microsoftish and not let you
> do silly/useful things like that.
>
> ^M obviously = ctrl-v ctrl-m


Are you trying to insinuate that Microsoft writes their software
specifically to ensure users cannot easily and logically do what they need
to?  That Microsoft is inconsistent with their program parameters?

I wonder what Bill would say about that?    :-)

-Hilton


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