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From: mic@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Global Empty Line Removal in vi?
Message-ID: <8940003@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 91 20:54:23 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.064310.8077@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: HP/CTG/DTL/HARP-Group, Ft. Collins, CO
Lines: 5

Under Unix, I simply use:

rmnl < file_with_blank_lines > file_without_blank_lines

and skip the fun with "vi" and "awk" altogether.