From: bdarnell AT vnet DOT net (Ben Darnell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Text editors
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 22:20:39 GMT
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997 06:55:38 GMT, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
wrote:

>
>On Tue, 21 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)
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