Pico will strip the ^M but still leaves the ^Z which (sometimes) is at the end of a MSDOS text file (at least there is only one think to delete).
Bob On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: > I found a useful way of converting a file, simply load it into > Netscape browser and it will not display the ^M characters. > > Then you can print it off or copy (alt-c) and paste the text > into an editor, or put it into netscape composer. > > John. > > > "M.C. Vernon" wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSWrite over the vac, and > > although I told it to save as plain text, it didn't. I can delete most of > > the cruft, but there is ^M at the end of each and every line. I've tried > > catdoc, word2x, and sed, but none of them will remove them. Can you > > suggest anything, please? > > > > please cc me as I'm not on this list ATM. > > > > -- > John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl > "Its grip'd, its sorted.." > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen