On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:49:59PM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote: > How do I go about this? It's binary, so I don't think I can use tr. Unlike MS products, *nixes don't recognize any distinction between text and binary files. (Well, not at the OS level, anyhow. Some apps try to guess, but that's beside the point.) sed is quite happy to work on binary files; I assume tr would be also. A simple `sed -e s/^Z//g` will do it. Of course, that's assuming you want to remove _all_ occurrences of 0x1a. If it's binary data, there may be some meaningful ^Zs in there, too, which you would probably want to preserve... -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r y+