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From: Jason P Holland <jholland@cs.selu.edu>
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Subject: RE: such a pain
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> > > > Hi,
> > > > I have some .c files which I got from my windows 
> > machine.But when I read
> > > > it on BSD,for every line end ^M shows up,whereever there is a
> > > > newline(carriage return).It is tedious to remove them 
> > manually.I have no
> > > > X installed on my BSD.Can anyone suggest how to get rid of them?
> > > > 
> > > > shubha
> > > 
> > > In BSD, open the file with the vi editor
> > > 
> > > vi <filename>
> > > 
> > > Once you have it there type
> > > 
> > > :%s/ctrl +V ctrl+ M//g
> > > 
> > > That will do it.
> > > The ctrl + V tells it to enter the next character
> > > literally---otherwise, the ctrl + M wouldn't show up. 
> > 
> > You may also want to try dos2unix, it's worked to remove 
> > those pesky ^M's for me.
> > 
> > #dos2unix file.txt
> > 
> > It's located in /usr/ports/converters/unix2dos/
> 
> 
> Next time, when you FTP them , send them in ASCII mode. By default most
> windows FTP clients send files in Binary mode. This has nothing to do with
> the files being binary or ASCII text, rather the FTP clients will strip the
> "/r" or carriage return from the end of the line for you.
> 
> 

in later versions of vi and vim, you can also 

:se ff=unix

that works for me.  but dos2unix is nice if you have an older version of 
vi that doesn't support it.

jason


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