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Date:Mon Mar 9 14:13:00 2000 
Subject:Re: Windows and Unix POP11 compatability 
From:Aaron Sloman See text for reply address 
Volume-ID:1000309.03 

Robin <pop@roo.cs.umass.edu> writes:

> Date: 9 Mar 2000 13:31:56 GMT
> ...
>
> ...
> I usually write a little POP-11 program to hoover up the excess characters
> if somebody sends me a Windows file.

In Ved you can do the following to get rid of carriage
return (ascii 13) characters:

    ENTER sgs/\r//

(SGS = Silent Global Substitute. Using ENTER gs instead gives a
running count of the number of substitutions done.)

If the file is copied from a floppy using mtools I believe there's
a flag you can give mcopy. From the "man mcopy" page:

     t    Text file transfer.  Mcopy translates incoming carriage
          return/line feeds to line feeds.

I think the unix "col" command also does something relevant.

Aaron
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