vi question

[Pete Allen]

In <7103 at ozdaltx.UUCP> root at ozdaltx.UUCP (root) writes:

*>I have a few files that contain characters in the alternate character
*>set, that is greater than \177, mostly stuff to do ansi graphics for
*>boxes and such.  When I edit the file with vi, all of the codes are
*>stripped out and I get a plain text file.  I beleive that there is a
*>set flag in vi that allows 8 bit writing when saving a file.  Can't
*>locate the code - anyone help?

I'm also interested in that, because I'm trying to enter some escape/control
sequences and can't figure out how to do that either. Our man for vi is only
seven pages long and I wasn't able to find the answer there. I remember
having this problem with edlin on MS-DOS, and the answer was to enter ^v,
which it translated into the ESC thingie. I'l keep my eyes open.
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