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- From: bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: EVE specins function? (or 'How to enter hex?')
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.062533.5824@ais.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 06:25:33 GMT
- References: <96875@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov9.233539.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu>
- Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC
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- In article <1992Nov9.233539.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu>, fairfield@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu writes:
- > In article <96875@netnews.upenn.edu>, st@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Stephen W. Thompson) writes:
- >> Some null characters were in a file received from 'elsewhere'. I'd like
- >> to know how to do a global replace to make the nulls into spaces.
- >> How does one enter the null (x'00') character in EVE?
- >
- > It would be nice if you could enter a null with CTRL/V CTRL/SPACE
- > (I don't have my ascii chart at home, null _is_ CTRL/SPACE isn't it?).
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- NUL is actually CTRL-@ (The CTRL characters are the printable
- characters from "@" through "_" -- which are 0x40 through 0x5f --
- XOR'd with 0x40, a space is 0x20). Some terminal may however
- generate a NUL on CTRL-space or other keyboard sequences.
-
- Bruce C. Wright
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