Looking for balanced critique of Perl

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Mon Jul 2 10:39:25 AEST 1990


In article <814 at ehviea.ine.philips.nl> leo at ehviea.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
> Unfortunately, the very keyword you're looking for is often underlined,
> or typed over multiple times, so it contains embedded backspaces (and
> possible underscores or repetitions) in the manual text.

What I do is run it through a program I wrote called "strike" that converts
this: _^Hu_^Hn_^Hd_^He_^Hr_^Hl_^Hi_^Hn_^He into
this: _________^M      underline. It's much nicer on the printer, and you can
do searches on it...
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Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
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