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X-To: robert@chalmers.com.au
Subject: Re: Stripping ^M from llines? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Aug 1997 10:54:50 +1000."
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Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 19:28:37 -0700
From: Greg Shenaut <greg@myrtle.bogs.org>
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In message <34076F58.B5DBAC3F@chalmers.com.au>, Robert Chalmers cleopede:
>Hi,
>Anyone got a handy program for stripping the ^M from text
>lines in fbsd?

Try this C program (fixnl).  Maybe it'll work.
(I use it on BSD/OS and MS-DOS, but haven't tried it
on fbsd.)  It is gzipped and uuencoded.

-Greg

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