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From: wayne-s@cockle.cis.ohio-state.edu (Wayne Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: is there any way to see special characters in a text editor?
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Date: 5 Jun 90 01:33:30 GMT
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I am looking to be able to see the control characters that are present 
in a specific file that is created. Is there any way to use, vi, ex, mg,
or emacs, ( or GNUemacs for that matter )  to display the control characters?
When I mean control characters I refer to ^L page breaks and ^M linefeeds (?)
theses are the type of characters that I want to see in the file. 

I am running Bezerkley Unix4.2 using SunOS 3.5.1 on sun 3/50's. I thank you
for your time, and I will post the answers to this question in a summary.


wayne schmidt 

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