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On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 07:16:33PM +0000, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> -snip-
> > I could write some script piping the outputs to
> > the next program.  Why won't cat or less let you display upper ASCII?
>
> Try less -r. It should display upper ascii, but am not absolutely
> sure.

That did it.
 -r -R --raw-control-chars

Apparently the actual extended ascii character is a raw control character 
and the default is the hex number of the character.

Less puts the file name at the bottom of the screen on one line.
Can I eliminate that?

I made a script l (less -r $1).

> What kind of cat are you using?

busybox 1.3.2 (yours).
Options:  -u   ignored

> Karolis

Sindi