On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Neil Walker <n...@ep.mine.nu> wrote:
>> On occasion, I run into a file with ^M at the end of a line in MCEDIT. > Those are DOS format files. Just "Save As" and select "Unix format". Neil, I know exactly why the ^M's are there; I've been prodding bytes since 1972. But saving doesn't solve the problem. Some of these files can't be saved -- they are read only, source code that has been inserted as part of a hack attempt. I need to get the ^M's out of the way for readability, but I can't write the file back (and I don't want to "su" and change the file status from RO; the whole point is that once it's been inserted into the system, by having fiddled the permissions, it can't be replaced with one of the same name and having a deactivated one present outright breaks a lot of hacks. Most of them, in fact.) Studying them remains very important to me, though, as understanding what they're up to is a clear window into what and where vulnerabilities lie. So I have this need to be able to modify the file in the editor. Is there truly no way to search for ^M or other embedded control characters? _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc