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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 21:44:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Robert Chalmers <robert@chalmers.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Stripping ^M from llines?
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If you ftp it ascii from the dos machine to begin with the ftp strips it I
think.

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?
> 
> cheers,
> Bob
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