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From: wolf@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: unwanted control characters in downloads
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.165508.20237@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
Date: 10 Apr 91 16:55:08 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.195318.18030@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Organization: INSA Departement Informatique, Lyon, France
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In article <1991Apr9.195318.18030@rodan.acs.syr.edu> ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes:
>To all: when I download certain files from a Sun/4 (running SunOS 4.1), such
>as a 'man' file, my files contain all the _^H and other sequences used in
>that file. Is there an easy way to eliminate this?

One solution could be to use vi to replace these characters:

vi the_file
:1,$s/.^H//g

^H can be obtained by pressing Ctrl+V and then Ctrl+H. The dor before ^H
indicates that any character before the ^H will also by replaced by
null string.  Hope this helps.

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