On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, era eriksson wrote:
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 05:30:11 -0700 (PDT), Dick Moores
<rdm(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com>
wrote:
> ^At^AI^Ie^I^C^AA^N1/4^AI^AR^A}^A^Ah and so on
In the Latin-1 character set, uppercase A with an acute accent is
character number 193, so you got that right, but it's not "contol A
acute", it's just "A acute" and the character you are seeing in front
of it is probably a regular caret character (byte value 94).
Here's just a partial response. The rest of your post will require much
study :-) .
Of course I had tried counting carets before on this stuff, and always
got the maximum, very large number. Your suggestion to use the
parentheses around "\^" was very helpful. I ran a post with many lines
of the J code in question through Procmail using
* -30^0
* 1^1 (\^)
and found that there were only 2 carets in the whole thing. Here's the
log entry:
procmail: Score: -30 -30 ""
procmail: Score: 2 -28 "(\^)"
So if all but two of those "^" things I see aren't carets, what are
they? In particular, what is that "^" in front of that "A acute"
character? (There are always many "A acute"s in this stuff.) I guess
I'll have to dig into the programs you mentioned, viz(1), cat -A, and
od(1).
Thanks,
Dick Moores rdm(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com