Date:	Mon, 27 Jan 1997 07:50:27 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Ben Darnell <bdarnell AT vnet DOT net>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Text editors
In-Reply-To:	<32e92d00.5982505@news.vnet.net>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970127075003.7773B-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Ben Darnell wrote:

> >> unexpand %1 | cat > %1
> >
> >Is something wrong with Textutils which prevents "unexpand %1 > file" from
> >working, or you just want to be able to put the output into the same file
> >as the input? 
> 
> "unexpand %1 > file" works fine, but I just wanted to be able to
> modify a file without changing the name (note the %1 in input and
> output)

That's what I figured.  Thanks.

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