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Re^2: Debian 2.0 release requirements



Am 08.01.98 schrieb aqy6633 # acf5.nyu.edu ...

Moin Alex!

AY> it is nice property of "less" (as opposed to "more") that it filters
AY> out all non-ascii charachters (changes them to some ^... printable
AY> sequencies). As a result, it is not possible to trash the console by
AY> doing "less <some binary file>" or, more important - if something

But that could be done really easy. You have to filter all bytes with a  
value < 32.

cu, Marco

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