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From: scott@texnext.gac.edu (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Files created on IBM clones
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Date: 12 Mar 91 16:01:59 GMT
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In article <HARDY.91Mar11234827@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
   There is a simpler way to get rid of the blasted ^M and ^Z characters
   imported from MS-DOS: Emacs will show them and you can  query-replace
   them with spaces. It is faster than writing a script.

That is, if you know emacs.  If you don't know emacs, you're not going to
have much luck finding out how to M-x to get to where you can run
query-replace, then escape control characters, then do all the other magic
needed, stuff which is obvious to those of us who use emacs, maybe not
so much to someone who's just come over from MSDOS, editting with
one of the gazillion PC editors out there.

[I don't mean this as an emacs flame - just pointing out that emacs
 certainly isn't what one would label user-friendly :-) ]

Later,
--
scott hess                      scott@gac.edu
Independent NeXT Developer	GAC Undergrad
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