Recent content by zarleyman

Thanks p5wizard, I think that is my best option.

Hi. Unfortunately I don't have that facility. All my processing must be done on the windows side. The best option I can think of so far is to pre-process the files with another tool to search&replace the ascii-26 away. z.

Hi, Thanks for your reply. I am transferring the file from hp-ux onto windows NT and processing it there. I understand that ascii-26 is sometimes interpreted as end-of-file. However, many tools (even on windows, eg notepad) just display a non-printable and continue on to all the other records...

Whenever my awk program sees a record which contains the non-printable character given by ascii code 26 (), it simply stops processing as if it met the end-of-file. It does not process the record which contained the ascii-26 character. (I am using gawk). I am eternally grateful to anyone who...