Talk: Uploading and Trailing M's
From Brett Miller <bre...@prospero.dev.cdx.mot.com>
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· 12 Jan 1995 00:03 · View full thread
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In article <3f01ta$im...@gagme.wwa.com>, Daniel Au <dca...@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> wrote: > >Does anyone else have problems with such as the one below...I assume that the >person uploaded a file and got all the trailing M's, which I know occurs with >any text file because it happens to me too. > >Is there any way to remove the trailing ^M's instead of doing it by hand, >which is what I'm doing now? Sometimes, if the file is long, it can be >_tremendously_ frustrating. Any help would be appreciated. > Daniel, I think that this is caused by a DOS<->UNIX translation. If you do your file transfers as text instead of binary you shouldn't have the problem. If you have files that already contain the ^M's try using the unix2dos or dos2unix commands to remove them. I don't remember which you'll want to use in this particular case. Hope this is right and helps, -Brett
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