help editing files in linux!!

[jludwig]

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 8:59 pm, mike wrote:
> i'm ftping a linux config file over to windows and editing it in windows.
> when i send it back to linux i see all these ^M characterse in the doc. 
> how do i edit it in a safe way or how do i prevent the garbling on the
> return back to linux?
The end of line return controls charactors different for Linux and M.S. 
windoz.
There is a command line program dos2unix that will convert the EOL charactors 
though.

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