Hi Chris, chris glur <[email protected]> wrote: >But I'm getting stupid: to extract a block >and write it to a file, I've been juggling with >'head' & 'tail' [I can't see how to get bash >to calculate ( $3 - $2 ) for the piece which I >need to save - instead of having to do the >subtraction manually]. > >Then it occured to me that simplest of editors >can mark-a-block and save it !
Don't hesitate, ask here, before you start blaming. ;-) Your feature is already build in. - open your file you want to copy from in edit mode - mark the block you want to save in a separate file - press CTRL-F to specify the directory and filename for your file and confirm it And that's it. regards Frank -- # to resolve all your problems, try this HOWTO='$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' perl -e 'print '$HOWTO _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
