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From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan/2113674)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ^M 's in uploaded text files.
Keywords: use tr or alternatively, use ZMODEM for transfers.
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Date: 1 Feb 90 15:16:06 GMT
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In article <5622@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, william@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Wi
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?

The "^M's" are a result of Microsoft's brain damaged decision to use
CR/LF to signify end-of-lines. They can be canned by using the delete
function of the standard "tr" command. I forget for the moment the hex
representation of "^M", but you can look it up in any standard ASCII
table. Alternatively, use kermit or zmodem to upload with the text
option that will automatically strip "^M" going up or add them when
downloading. I would recommend zmodem for its "on-the-fly" compression
of text as well.

						Ron

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