Re: cooledit: write block to File ?

[Frank Dietrich <ABLEsoft gmx de>]

Hi Chris,

chris glur <crglur gmail com> 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