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Date:      Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:59:10 -0800
From:      charon@freethought.org
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   replacing ^M in vi
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19990110225910.00a2f220@mail>

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Whenever I save a plain text file in WinNT and open it in FreeBSD, at the
end of every line is a "^M".  How do I get rid of these?  I tried writing a
little C++ program to copy all text except "^M" to another file, but it
doesn't work because C++ treats the ^ and the M as different characters,
whereas vi treats them as _one_ character.  After searching the mailing
list archives, I came up with the syntax ":%s/stuff/other stuff/g" as the
oh-so-intuitive replace command in vi, and I tried it, but to no avail (it
says "no match found").  Any suggestions?  Thanks,



        Charon@freethought.org
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