Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: changing a ! to a \nC where \n is a newline Message-ID: <2215@charon.cwi.nl> Date: 22 Sep 90 18:55:21 GMT References: <2965@wyse.wyse.com> <13958@hydra.gatech.EDU> <2967@wyse.wyse.com> Sender: news@cwi.nl Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 13 In article <2967@wyse.wyse.com> bob@wyse.UUCP (Bob McGowen x4312 dept208) writes: > In article <13958@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM) writes: > >in article <2965@wyse.wyse.com>, bob@wyse.wyse.com (Bob McGowen x4312 dept208) says: > >> %s/$/^-V/ # what I see: %s/$/^M/ > >> Other systems may do this and I would be interested in knowing which ones. > >produces double spacing on all four systems. (incl. Dynix & SunOS 4.0.3) > But we use SunOS 4.0.3 here and when I use the above I DO NOT get double > spacing, just lines with ^M displayed at the end. You also said (if I remember right) that you used a Sun 386i. At least on a Sun4 (SunOS 4.0.3) it produces double spacing. -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland dik@cwi.nl