^M 's in uploaded text files.

[Mike Van Pelt]

In article <5622 at udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> william at vax1.acs.udel.EDU (William H. York) writes:
>I use my PC to write text files in word perfect then I save in dos format
>to upload to our vax.  When the file is cat'ed, the ^M's don't show, but
>when vi'ing they become real annoying!  Is there a file I can pipe it 
>through to remove the ^M's or perhaps a way vi can be used to remove them?

If you just want a way to do this in vi, I use the following all
the time:    :s/^M//g

The trick is getting the ^M in the search string.  You do this by
pressing <CONTROL>-V, followed by carriage return or <CONTROL>-M.
^V is vi's quoting character.
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Mike Van Pelt                     "I'm not a biologist, but I play one in 
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...ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp                        -- Meryl Streep