-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> it is nice property of "less" (as opposed to "more") that it filters > out all non-ascii charachters (changes them to some ^... printable > sequencies). As a result, it is not possible to trash the console by > doing "less <some binary file>" or, more important - if something > bad happened and you created a file(s) with some non-ascii charachters, > "ls" will trash the console while "ls | less" will show you everything > and let you delete it. I think there is a misunderstanding here: "non-ascii" is not the same as "non-printable". At least in iso-8859-1, characters from 160 to 255 *are* printable, and should *not* be "escaped" in any way, or else nobody will be able to see \begin{TeX} Espa\~na \end{TeX} properly (i.e. "Espaņa" in iso-8859-1). These characters are also printable with the default font, but obviously you will not see the letter (TeX \~n) or accented letters, but IBM-PC graphics instead. You may trash the console by printing characters from 128 to 159, but in general these are *not* printable, so I don't think anything bad will happen if we are 8-bit clean at least *for characters between 160 and 255*. Thanks. p.s. I don't remember ever having trashed the console by using less. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNLS++CqK7IlOjMLFAQFa7AQAkhicyTKplgnqR9bkF1UhciWQohzP7N4r RwyZZAtoApAsmTjaEGZIkNKqfPAtd8hjaWjz4iiWt+oFizdVP8XMoE2TLAHjH99K RNEeVQIBrcw1vACo/7UsLqd0vRqghUwZujx8OKSjmaYiqmo9OLObUolsxAkq877p lV9iNgJTSfI= =MPjr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .