adam on Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:07:24 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] Silly Emacs Question


hd2u
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/11/25/943565998.html
hd2u is Hany's Dos2Unix converter, a filter used to convert DOS-like
EOLs to UNIX-like EOLs and vice versa.

/adam

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Luis Baars wrote:

> Greg,
> 
> I deal with this almost everyday at work, except I have to put the ^Ms into 
> files instead of taking them out (some weird thing with MS-DOS batch files 
> needing extra embedded new line characters in order to run the batch 
> file....go figure, it's Microsoft).
> 
> Another way to remove the new line characters (if you have a Windows machine 
> available) is to ftp the file over to the Windows machine in binary mode, 
> then ftp it back to your linux box in ascii mode.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Luis
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Jason Lenthe <lenthe@mailhost.sju.edu>
> Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Silly Emacs Question
> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:34:15 -0500 (EST)
> 
> If you edit a file under windows, then edit it under linux (vi or emacs or
> whatever) you'll see those ^M s.  My favorite way of getting rid of them is
> to do
> 
> cat myfile | tr -d '\r' > out
> mv out myfile
> 
> You can always inspect out before you overwrite the original to make sure
> you got it right.
> 
> Jason
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> Started using emacs and it seems to put a ^m at the end of each line.
> How do I stop this?  I have a shell (tcsh) where I am setting some
> environment vars (setenv) and this ^m shows up in all.   Realize this is
> not strictly Linux.
> 
> Greg
> 
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