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===== Hints on Cut-& | ===== Hints on Cut-& | ||
- | Experience has shown us that cutting and pasting (cut-& | + | Experience has shown us that cutting and pasting (cut-& |
This is simply due to a decades-wide range of minor incompatibilities between terminal emulation software (which is intentionally ANSI-standards-compliant, | This is simply due to a decades-wide range of minor incompatibilities between terminal emulation software (which is intentionally ANSI-standards-compliant, | ||
- | This is not a fatal situation | + | //This is not a fatal problem// |
In particular: | In particular: | ||
- | * You may select a line, or several lines, of text from a page. | + | * You may select-& |
- | * The line(s) may contain various punctuation characters, particularly quote-marks '' | + | |
- | * When you paste that selected/ | + | |
- | * **Compare each selected/ | + | |
- | * **Make manual changes/ | + | |
- | Examples | + | * The line(s) may contain various punctuation characters, particularly '' |
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+ | * When you paste that selected/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Compare each selected/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | * **Make manual changes/ | ||
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+ | ==== Example | ||
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+ | The Wiki page contains an example like this, which you select-& | ||
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+ | $ WRITE sys$output “This is: ” + RED + BOLD + “red & bold text ” + NORM + “…but now back to normal.” | ||
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+ | When you paste it onto your DCL command line, it __might__ look like this: | ||
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+ | $ WRITE sys$output This is: + RED + BOLD + red & bold text + NORM + ...but now back to normal. | ||
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+ | Note that //all of the double-quote-marks have disappeared!// | ||
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+ | Fix? Just edit your command line to put these back, just as in the original. | ||
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+ | This annoying behavior is rare, and yet unpredictable. |
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