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From: btwomey@cbnewsj.att.com (william.tw0mey)
Subject: Re: vi can't handle ":! cmd %"
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Date: Wed, 28 Nov 90 14:06:37 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.140637.20499@cbnewsj.att.com>
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Re: Message-ID: <1990Nov27.210425.25747@cbnewsj.att.com>

For those of you that have replied to me, thanks.
Let me clarify my post, I am editing an existing file.

From within vi the following can happen
:!echo % | od -c
0000000   f   o   o   .   c  \n
	346 357 357 256 343 012

Does ksh NOT have a convention that vi and other shells use?

Thanks,
Bill Twomey, cbnewsj!btwomey attmail!btwomey journey!btwomey