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
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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.