Re: pico editor question

Roland John Turner (rjturner@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Wed, 29 May 1996 17:20:17 +1000 (EST)

Patrick Kennedy (SYD) wrote:
>
>
> somtime ago this was posted:
>
> >:1,$ s/CTRL-VCTRL-M$// - delete ^Ms left from DOS text files.
> > (the $ is entirely optional).
>
> is it correct? it doesn't seem to work.....vi says s is an unknown command

Sounds like you've got a busted version of vi - some old versions of Elvis
had problems with commands like the above.

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