replace carriage returns - the final solution

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:14:16AM -0500, Richard D. Williams wrote:
>    I actual changed the sed line to:   sed 's/~@//g' < $1.ul > $1.sed
> Each line ends with ~@~crnl (carriage-return line-feed), so when I remove the ~
> @ it leaves the ~.
> I use it as my end-of-record marker and use an import of: import ascii merge = 
> (filename) r=~ f=|
> 
> This works fine.

Well, it does, certainly, but as I noted, you might be better served to
leave the newline instead, so you can manually mung the file with vi
easily, should you ever need to do so.

Cheers,
-- jra
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