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From: jbw@bucsb.UUCP (jbw)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: script files
Summary: inews garbage
Message-ID: <2381@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 89 16:42:15 GMT
References: <517@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu>
Reply-To: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
Followup-To: comp.emacs
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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In article <517@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> yehuda@victoria.UUCP (Yechiel Yehuda) writes:
>	After I create a script file of something and send it to be 
>  printed, I first have to go into Emacs and edit all those damn
>  ^M and ^Ds.  It is such a pain.  A sysop here wrote a little C
>  program to clean the files but I still want to see if I can do it in 
>  Emacs.
>	Is there any way to *quickly* clean a file of control characters
>  in Emacs?

Try this:
ESC ESC (load "man")
M-x nuke-nroff-bs

This usually works for me.  (I've also got a short shell script that
does this.)

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Joe Wells
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