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Date:      Mon, 04 Aug 2003 10:08:59 -0500
From:      C Peter Biessener <pbiessener@hirshfields.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to remove ^M character
Message-ID:  <3F2E770B.10001@hirshfields.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030801140211.GA418@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
References:  <08ca01c35807$4abad740$1e003c0a@niksuntest> <20030801140211.GA418@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>

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You can also use ASCII mode in ftp, it will translate the line ends for 
you.  BINARY mode is for programs and archive files (zip, tar, tgz, etc...)

Simon Barner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>I ftp'd a file from windows to freebsd....not its every line has ^M at its
>>end.
>>Is there some command in vi (or some way) by whcih ^M can be removed.
> 
> 
> You can use dos2unix(1) for that. There is also the complementary tool
> unix2dos(1).
> 
> Simon



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