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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 15:19:01 -0500
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- From: "M. Roy Harris" <mrh3b@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
- Subject: CTRL-Zs & gardening
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- 1) CTRL-Z: I've unintentionally deleted Tony Hirtenstein's plea
- regarding the EOF markers (CTRL-Z). I would like to tell him that
- Tony Woozley has written an XPL program that runs the utility
- NOCZ.COM that Dorothy Day gave us. One saves the file on NB's
- screen to disk, then runs the XPL program to remove the CTRL-Z.
- (It may be that NOCZ would also delete any CTRL-Z embedded in a
- longer file downloaded from your mailer -- I'm not sure.) Tony's
- XPL program certainly facilitates the use of NOCZ. He also has,
- if I recall correctly, an XPL program that will insert CRs and
- LFs in the on-screen file. I have written a Turbo-Pascal program
- to insert a CRLF in the first space after position 65 on a line
- and also remove any CTRL-Z in a file. I can send it to you
- privately in xx-encoded format if you like. It has the advantage
- of being much faster than an XPL program and would certainly make
- a difference in working on a 700K file.
-
- 2) Gardening: This has nothing to do with NB, but we have a fair
- number of subscribers in the UK, one of whom may know the answer
- to this gardening question.
-
- There was a report on the radio this morning concerning some
- newly discovered healthful properties of the purlane plant --
- e.g., it's very high vitimin E content. Purslane is generally
- considered a weed here in Virginia, ~but I visited a woman in
- Broadstairs, England some years back who showed me the plant in
- her kitchen garden and told me that it was excellent in salads.
- The _OED_ says that it is also occasionally eaten as a potherb,
- adding that it is not much grown nowadays. Does any of our
- English readers know if an English seedsman offers an improved
- garden variety of purslane?
-
- Roy Harris - University of Virginia
- mrh3b@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU, mrh3b@Virginia.Bitnet
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