Hello everyone, I'm very new to BSD & this mailing list so please
forgive me should I post incorrectly.

Here are some links that may help you with removing the ^M character
from any file!!

http://www.unixblog.com/quick_unix_tips/remove_m_with_vi.php - I like
this one personally, because I've used it before & it worked!!

http://www.introcomp.co.uk/general/remove_dos.html

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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 23:10:33 +0530
From: Shantanoo Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Remove ^M characters from xhtml file
To: Robin Schoonover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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+++ Robin Schoonover [freebsd] [30-11-03 19:17 -0700]:
| On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:16:02 -0600, Bryan Cassidy 
| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| wrote:
| > I've downloaded a couple of .xhtml files and they have ^M characters

| > all through it. I tried the col -b < name > newname command on these

| > files but when I do that it erases the whole document. Any ideas?
| 
| dos2unix (converters/unix2dos in ports) is an easy route (dos2unix 
| name).
| Also you can use the tr command (tr -d '\r' < name > newname).
| 
| --
| Robin Schoonover (aka End)

col -bx < old.xhtml > new.xhtml

Shantanoo

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