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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: ^M 's in uploaded text files.
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Date: 1 Feb 90 16:47:04 GMT
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In article <5622@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, william@vax1.acs.udel.EDU
(William H. York) writes:
> I use my PC to write text files in word perfect then I save in dos format
> to upload to our vax.  When the file is cat'ed, the ^M's don't show, but
> when vi'ing they become real annoying!  Is there a file I can pipe it 
> through to remove the ^M's or perhaps a way vi can be used to remove them?

  Many versions of the "tr" program will allow you to specify control
characters in the strings passed to tr, and to use the -d option to tell
it to delete any characters in the first string.  Therefore, to delete
all the ^M characters in a file, you could do

  tr -d "\012" < filename > filename.new

Note that your version of tr may require that you use "[\012]" instead
of just "\012".

  I don't know how to do it in vi; I use emacs :-) ("M-x replace-string
<RETURN> ^Q ^M <RETURN> <RETURN>").

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