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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Hidden control characters in a Unix Text File! Post 22259 by Perderabo on Thursday 30th of May 2002 08:44:26 AM
Old 05-30-2002
vi does not work well with binary data. I suggest that you stay away from vi for this issue. To display the data you can use either "cat -v" or "od -c". Once you know what you're dealing with, "tr -d" can delete unwanted bytes.
 

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gldeletelists

GLDELETELISTS(3G)														 GLDELETELISTS(3G)

NAME

       glDeleteLists - delete a contiguous group of display lists

C SPECIFICATION

       void glDeleteLists( GLuint list,
			   GLsizei range )

PARAMETERS

       list   Specifies the integer name of the first display list to delete.

       range  Specifies the number of display lists to delete.

DESCRIPTION

       glDeleteLists  causes  a  contiguous  group  of display lists to be deleted.  list is the name of the first display list to be deleted, and
       range is the number of display lists to delete.	All display lists d with list <= d <= list + range - 1 are deleted.

       All storage locations allocated to the specified display lists are freed, and the names are available for reuse at  a  later  time.   Names
       within the range that do not have an associated display list are ignored.  If range is 0, nothing happens.

ERRORS

       GL_INVALID_VALUE is generated if range is negative.

       GL_INVALID_OPERATION is generated if glDeleteLists is executed between the execution of glBegin and the corresponding execution of glEnd.

SEE ALSO

       glCallList(3G), glCallLists(3G), glGenLists(3G), glIsList(3G), glNewList(3G)

																 GLDELETELISTS(3G)
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