In article <4864 at bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: >I have a shell script containing the line: > > /bin/cat -uv "$file" | /usr/ucb/more -10d Which is exactly why an option like -v (make control characters visible) should be in a file-viewing utility like more, and not in a concatenation utility like cat. Steve Summit scs at adam.pika.mit.edu