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From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ^M 's in uploaded text files.
Keywords: Help!
Message-ID: <533@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 90 17:37:02 GMT
References: <5622@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
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Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, NISD, Great Valley Laboratory
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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?
you have (at least) two alternatives:
--use the mode of your file-transfer program that understands that you
..are sending a "text" file: the *DOS and *NIX ends should take care of
..end-of-line sequences (_most_ XMODEM, YMODEM and KERMIT implementations
..do this)
--use WP to save "without line breaks" or whatever the incantation is
..actually called
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regardz,
Ken