editing text files

[Nils Kassube]

Noah wrote:
> okay I am having issues correcting the ^M and line feeds of a text
> file. Let me explain.  I transfered a text file that a friend sent
> me from a windows machine.  Now when I 'less' the file there are no
> new lines appearing and '^M' appears where I would expect the new
> line to appear.

> What I can do to fix this problem?  Is there an option in emacs or is
> there an option from the shell?

I don't speak emacs, so here is a shell command instead:

cat old.txt | tr '\r' '\n' >new.txt


Nils