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To: Juan Savioli <jcs@dhi.dk>
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Subject: Re: dos2ux 
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 06:26:10 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> could anybody tell how to get rid of all the strange characters
> which appear when I get a file from DOS. I work also in 
> a HP machine and there we have a command called dos2ux,
> but we do not have it in FreeBSD.

sed -e 's/
$//' < dosfile > unixfile

(note: that's a genuine ^M I've embedded in the sed command; if your mailer
hates it, just remember that you're basically just trying to use sed to
strip the trailing carriage returns, and that's matched by the pattern '^M$').

					Jordan