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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting removing spurious charactors from file Post 53218 by old git on Thursday 8th of July 2004 08:55:04 AM
Old 07-08-2004
the problem is that the
corruption inserts a <Ctl M> charactor and throws a line.

Hence

instead of bbbb

we get :

bb<CtlM>
bb

By simply substituting <Ctl M> with ''
I get

bb
bb

when I want

bbbb


In vi I have to use "J" to concatinate the two lines after subsituting <Ctl M> for ''

Hence I think I need to substitute the string
^M\n with ''

but I can't get this to work
 

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XmDeactivateProtocol(3X)												  XmDeactivateProtocol(3X)

NAME
XmDeactivateProtocol - A VendorShell function that deactivates a protocol without removing it SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Xm.h> #include <Xm/Protocols.h> void XmDeactivateProtocol (shell, property, protocol) Widget shell; Atom property; Atom protocol; void XmDeactivateWMProtocol (shell, protocol) Widget shell; Atom protocol; DESCRIPTION
XmDeactivateProtocol deactivates a protocol without removing it. It updates the handlers and the property, if the shell is realized. It is sometimes useful to allow a protocol's state information (callback lists, etc.) to persist, even though the client may choose to tempo- rarily resign from the interaction. The main use of this capability is to gray/ungray f.send_msg entries in the Mwm system menu. This is supported by allowing a protocol to be in one of two states: active or inactive. If the protocol is active and the shell is realized, the property contains the protocol Atom. If the protocol is inactive, the Atom is not present in the property. XmDeactivateWMProtocol is a convenience interface. It calls XmDeactivateProtocol with the property value set to the atom returned by interning WM_PROTOCOLS. Specifies the widget with which the protocol property is associated Specifies the protocol property Specifies the protocol atom (or an int type cast to Atom) For a complete definition of VendorShell and its associated resources, see VendorShell(3X). SEE ALSO
mwm(1X), VendorShell(3X), XmDeactivateWMProtocol(3X), XmInternAtom(3X) XmDeactivateProtocol(3X)
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