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From: Gordon Greeff <gordon@iafrica.com>
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To: Robert Chalmers <robert@chalmers.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Stripping ^M from llines?
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On Sat, 30 Aug 1997, Robert Chalmers wrote:

> Hi,
> Anyone got a handy program for stripping the ^M from text
> lines in fbsd?
> I currently use tr -d '\015', but this falls over text that
> has the : chararacter in it, complaining about it being a
> directory?

There is a really easy way of doing it:

load the file up in pico
hit enter once ( to add a line )
save and quit

fire it up in vi, and voila.

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