Xref: utzoo comp.lang.perl:1692 comp.unix.wizards:22714 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Looking for balanced critique of Perl Message-ID: Date: 2 Jul 90 00:39:25 GMT References: <4811@muffin.cme.nist.gov> <8497@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <814@ehviea.ine.philips.nl> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 In article <814@ehviea.ine.philips.nl> leo@ehviea.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes: > Unfortunately, the very keyword you're looking for is often underlined, > or typed over multiple times, so it contains embedded backspaces (and > possible underscores or repetitions) in the manual text. What I do is run it through a program I wrote called "strike" that converts this: _^Hu_^Hn_^Hd_^He_^Hr_^Hl_^Hi_^Hn_^He into this: _________^M underline. It's much nicer on the printer, and you can do searches on it... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.