hi, During the process of my project, I found something strange related to the unix command expand/unexpand. when I expand a text file and then unexpand the just expanded file, the unexpand result is not the same as the exact original text file. I wonder if the expand/unexpand command are intentionally design to have such attribution, 'cauz with my self-developed expand/unexpand command, the file remain the same after first expanded and then unexpanded. Below attached the output of unix command expand/unexpand run on a text file called test.txt, for your reference. Look forward to your reply. Thanks, Rui ========================= sisko> cat -v -t test.txt aaaaaaa^Ibbb sisko> expand -8 test.txt > temp1.txt sisko> cat -v -t temp1.txt aaaaaaa bbb sisko> unexpand -8 -a temp1.txt > temp2.txt sisko> diff test.txt temp2.txt 1c1 < aaaaaaa bbb --- >aaaaaaa bbb sisko> cat -v -t test.txt aaaaaaa^Ibbb sisko> cat -v -t temp2.txt aaaaaaa bbb _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
