From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 02:03:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09DE916A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 02:03:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from foulplay.org (h0080c8fb05eb.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.31.81.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C3D43D2F for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 02:02:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from foulplay@foulplay.org) Received: from foulplay.org (dhcp-24.foulplay.org [192.168.1.24]) by foulplay.org (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id i0PA2p832030; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 05:02:51 -0500 Message-ID: <4013944B.6070900@foulplay.org> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 05:02:51 -0500 From: Avijit Pathania User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: marlon corleone References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Foulplace-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Administrator X-Foulplace-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Foulplace-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.6, required 2.5, EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION -0.50, IN_REP_TO -0.50, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT -0.48, REFERENCES -0.50, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES -0.50, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA 0.00, X_ACCEPT_LANG -0.10) cc: misc@openbsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to get rid of ^M character using vi X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:03:00 -0000 Looks like your file might have been edited in a dos text editor. You can try running dos2unix against it to see if that helps. marlon corleone wrote: > how do i get rid of this annoying character ^M using vi, in pico i > used the arguments '-w' > but what about in vi? > > cheers > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > >