similar to: syslinux does not interpret backslash

Hello list, in a previous post I mentioned I had managed to make USB-Stick with 2048 byte sectors bootable. In fact I wiped out my Linux partitions bootrecord. This was with an old version of extlinux as still distributed by openSuSE. Interestingly enough the current version syslinux-3.61-pre2, spares my hard disk, but still seems to live under the impression it is the USB stick. The setup is

How often is this the case ? ??? > If extlinux is the system bootloader, then often what you call the > system partition will be the one that should have extlinux installed on it. I think in most cases people try to make _some_other_ disk bootable. If I boot with extlinux as the bootloader why should I want to install it again ? Apart from that it would then require -u not -i. Casual On

I want to replace \\ with \ in: str <- "C:\\DOKUME~1\\u0327336\\LOKALE~1\\Temp\\RtmpQ5NJ8X\\TIRIS_PICS\\1_Img.jpg" and tried: gsub("\\\\", "\\", str) but this removes the \\ without replacing them by \ Any help much appreciated, Kay ----- ------------------------ Kay Cichini Postgraduate student Institute of Botany Univ. of Innsbruck ------------------------

Hello! I've just started trying gnome-terminal (instead of xterm) because of its "tabbing" facility. However, I note that with it backslashes appear something like a W with a horizontal line through it. Any known way to get a backslash to appear as a backslash? To see what I mean, use gnome-terminal with echo '\' in bash, ksh, etc. Regards, Chip Campbell

Hello everybody, this might be a trivial question, but I have been unable to find this using Google. I am trying to replace double backslashes with single backslashes using gsub. There seems to be some unexpected behaviour with regards to the replacement string "\\". The following example uses the string C:\\ which should be converted to C:\ . > gsub("\\\\",

Hello, I am not very familiar with regular expressions and escaping. I need to replace the %-signs in a character vector with elements as "income 0%-33%# to be replaced by "income 0\%-33\%" (for later use in LaTeX). Using gsub("%","\\%","income 0%-33%") does not give the desired result. However, gsub("%","\\\\%","income

Dear list, After searching many old posts, I can't find the solution to a simple problem. can someone tell me how to create a character string with multiple backslashes, as in: file_dir <- c("C:\files\data\") I need to create this string and then paste it to many files names for batch processing in another software program. R won't accept the backslash and removes

Hello, Can anyone help on gsub() in R? I have a string like something below, and wanted to delete all the strings with leading backslash, including "\xa0On", "\023, "\xab", and many others. How should I write a regular expression pattern in gsub()? I don't care how many characters following backslash. txt <- "Is This Thing\xa0On? http://bit.ly/jAbKem

How do I get output with "\color{blue}", i.e. with only one backslash??? > "\color{blue}" [1] "color{blue}" Warning messages: 1: '\c' is an unrecognized escape in a character string 2: unrecognized escape removed from "\color{blue}" > "\\color{blue}" [1] "\\color{blue}" > Any help greatly appreciated. Best regards,

Greeting R Community, I am a windows user so this problem may be specific to windows. I often want to source files from within R such as: C:\Users\Rinker\Desktop\Research & Law\Data\School Data 09-10. To source this file I need to go through the path and replace all the backslashes (\) with forward slashes (/). I usually do this in MS Word using the replace option, however, I'd like

Ok, I''m hoping this won''t be a forehead slapper, but take a look at this code: physician.name.sub(/''/, "\\''") I''m trying to substitute a single quote with a backslash and a single quote. This seems pretty simple right? Well, someone kick me and tell me why it''s not :) Here''s what I''m getting if the

The following code works, to gsub single quotes to double quotes: line <- gsub("'", '"', line) (that's a single quote within doubles then a double within singles if your viewer's font is not good). But The R Language Manual tells me that Quotes and other special characters within strings are specified using escape sequences: \' single quote \"

Hi, I'm trying to build a vector of latex commands. However, I need the command strings to begin with a backslash "\". I have: test <- c('foo','bar') and I need to rebuild the array, encapsulating the text items with latex stuff, like this: paste("\parbox[b]{3cm}{", test, "}", fill=TRUE) Actually, cat() prints the string fine if one uses

R Version 1.9.1 (2004-06-21) Mac OS X.3.5 Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 GUI = "AQUA" I have a data.frame comprising percentiles with the column headings containing % characters, e.g. > (pp <- colnames(temp2)) [1] "5%" "10%" "25%" "50%" "75%" "90%" "95%" I use xtable to convert the data.frame to Latex but I want to

I am in the middle of migrating a number of applications from one server to another and I am running into an issue with backslashes on a smbfs mount. Basically, the backslash can be used in a file path on the old server and not on the new. This turns out to be important because of the samba share is used to store data for a large number of FTP clients, who use an old automated script which chokes

How can I get a single backslash in a character string? My goal is to escape dots in a string that will be used as a regular expression. I thought I could do it this way: gsub(".", "\\.", x) Unfortunately, "\\" does not represent a literal backslash as I expected, but rather a pair of backslashes: > "\\." [1] "\\." > "\\" [1]

Hi I have a applikation (Oracle DB) which writes files with a backslash in names, i.e: Log\GEN_INPUT_BASED_2899.csv not a problem for Unix but Samba present it to Windows users as: L2CYOP~L.CSV Is there any way _in Samba_ to strip this 'Log\' and give back to user the GEN_INPUT_BASED_2899.csv part. Tha appliance (EMC Celerra) I've just migrated data from, was magicaly doing this.

Dear R community, is there any way to include a backslash in a charakter string without meaning some escape sequence? E.g. i need a string like: a <- '\hline' Error: '\h' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "\h" to include some latex code in a xtable object, but I only mange to do: a <- '\\hline' which is not what I want. In

Something about the way R processes backslashes is defeating me. Perhaps this is because I have only just started using R for text processing. I would like to change occurrences of the ampersand & into ampersand preceded by a backslash. > temp <- "R & D" > sub("&", "\&", temp) [1] "R & D" > sub("&",

I've just started using AMP and found that I have a problem with escaped characters in config files. In particular, I have a custom config item that needs a semicolon in... SetVar(_ALERT_INFO=info=auto-answer;delay=1) To get the part of the line after the ; to be accepted by Asterisk as a non-comment it needs to be escaped with a backslash, but I have found that I need to put two