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From: Joachim Kuebart <joki@shire.domestic>
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Subject: Removing DOS's ^M
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There used to be a utility to do that, something like a filter called crlf or so, but I can't find that.

For now, to convert Text files (that do NOT contain any other control characters apart from ^M and newline), you can use

	cat -v filename | sed 's/^M//' > outfilename

alternatively to EMACS, which is Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping.
Maybe even sed offers a better way, but this is what comes to my mind :-)

c u Jo