Re: What's that character?

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> While i was looking through the file, I was cutting and pasting several
> lines into another text file to illustrate the problems to them, and I came
> across a character that stopped the paste - for instance, I copied 5 lines,
> but could only paste 2 1/2 lines, and it stopped at this particular
> character.  I'm sure that this will give fits to the CPYFRMSTMF or
> CPYFRMIMPF commands too, though I haven't tried.
>
> My question is, how can I find out what ascii char this is, and why it
> can't be copy/pasted?  If someone wants to actually see the file, I can
> send it to them offline.

You could use a tool such as ghex to look at the file in hexadecimal.  I
can do that for you if you don't have such a tool available.

James Rich

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