editing text files

[Knute Johnson]

On 11/8/2011 2:38 PM, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Noah <noah-list at enabled.com
> <mailto:noah-list at enabled.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi there,
>
>     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.
>
>     when I emacs the file - the file appears to be formatted correctly.
>     emacs claims its formatting is "Mac" and "Text"  I dont see any ^M
>     markings in the emacs editor and all the new lines are where I
>     expect them to be.
>
>     What I can do to fix this problem?  Is there an option in emacs or
>     is there an option from the shell?
>
>
> There is also shell commands  ... dos2unix, which I think Ubuntu has as
> fromdos that will rewrite the files. I don't recall offhand what package
> these are in.
> --
> Hal
>
>

I just loaded it, it is in it's own package.

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Knute Johnson