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From: moss@BRL.MIL (VLD/VMB)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  Difficulty with the editing mode
Message-ID: <17834@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Dec 88 14:41:02 GMT
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George,
	It sounds like your file has no new-line characters in it.  Different
systems use different characters to represent the end of a line in a text
file; Unix uses the ASCII code for linefeed ('\n') which is 012 (octal).  The
vi editor doesn't see any '\n' character, so it thinks there is just one line
of text.

	Use the following command to examine the contents of your file and
ascertain what is being used to represent a new-line:

od -bc < file | more

	Then write a 'C' program which transposes that character or sequence
of characters to 012 or '\n'.

-moss