How to input ^M in ex?

[Thomas king]

Hi All,
I find that I can't input ^M as a character in ex , when I press ^V^M, ex treat it as a linefeed.
But I can input ^M as a character in vi and ex in aix 5.2.
My environment is HP 11.i .
Please help me .
Thanks in advance!
Thomas.

[Elmar P. Kolkman · Accepted solution]

I've tried it in vi on HP-UX (11 and 11i)and it works...
VM

Only ex doesn't support it, it seems. Any particular reason you want to use ex instead of vi?

[Steven E. Protter]

This happens when a file that was meant to be transferred to a system ascii is transferred binary.

Check the ftp settings binary/ascii when doing the transfers.

Microsoft's built in ftp client defaults to ascii, that can be a problem.

For reasons I do not understand secure ftp sftp does not have this problem.

SEP

[Jeroen Peereboom]

Steven

does secure ftp support ascii and binary at all? I could not find the sub-commands to set the transfer mode, and I think it's always binary.

JP.

[Thomas king]

Thank you for all your replies.

Yes , I know I can input it in vi. But I am very
strange why it doesn't work in ex.

Best regards.

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

It's even stranger: have you tried in ex to apend ^V^M, stop appending, save the file and then cat the file with 'cat -v'?
You'll see that the ^V is in the file...

ex just doesn't support the escaping of control characters...

[Thomas king]

Yes, I have found that before I post this message.
Thank you all!

Best regards