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From:	steve@cegelecproj.co.uk (Steve_Kilbane)
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To:	sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: capitalisation
X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
X-Face: Iqsa(US9p?)Y^W+6Ff[Z]<t?\A!eaL'DG{20*#{C1;'Ct&}L}B^/1(aYI@hP)4!<}7D=2gm 
        8!$T`8QNfK<te\20%A\`wm*wa2"^Up*Qs"X}KeV*3XeB2te&sKp*t`N;^BDh[6=K{ZBE=O>rM"uFE) 
        lFDjag1e]\/#2

> yes, i made a mistake transcribing the command.  the comma
> should be a semicolon.  how you got all capital letters in your
> version, though, i don't understand.

well, that's what happens. I 'new' a window, type 'this is a test line\n'
into it, and then do ",x/[a-z]+/-#0,+#1|tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'", and i get
a whole line capitalised ('scuse the SVR4 tr...)

> 
> 	,x/[a-zA-Z0-9_]+/ -#0;+#1 | tr a-z A-Z
> 

now, this *does* work, and definitely worth remembering....

steve