On Fri, 31 May 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 01-Jun-2002 Paul E Condon wrote: > > What is a simple way to insert a carriage return character just before > > each line feed (new line) character in a text file? > > > > in other words, make it look like a Windows text file? The sysutils package > has two utilities -- 'fromdos' which removes ^M and 'todos' which adds them.
or in vi do a search and replace: g:/$/s//^M/g to produce the ctrl char: ctrl-v, ctrl-m ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Good e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Programmer/Analyst phone: (+1) 718.818.5528 Residential Services fax: (+1) 718.818.5056 Behavioral Health Services, SVCMC-NY mobile: (+1) 917.282.7359 -- -- SQL Clinic - An Open Source Clinical Record www.sqlclinic.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
