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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 12:36:26 EST
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To: Cygwin News Group <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: How do I remove CR/LF from text file
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From: Brian Keener <bkeener AT thesoftwaresource DOT com>
Reply-To: bkeener AT thesoftwaresource DOT com

Malcolm Boekhoff wrote:
> file in Word (and probably Wordpad)
> and then save it as text. This will put the \r\n sequence back in. 

Actually, it doesn't appear to - they just seem to display it properly and then saves it the same 
way and it still looks bad in Notepad and my email program.

> You can also use vim (part of Cygwin) to read the file in, change
> the file type to "dos" (via ":set fileformat=dos") then save it.

Hadn't tried this yet (actually didn't know about it) but just did and that works like a champ - I 
can live with that solution.  Thanks for the new command in vim.

Brian



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