At 08:05 PM 3/1/2006, Johnny Hughes wrote: >On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 19:44 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > At 05:45 PM 3/1/2006, Adam Gibson wrote: > > >Les Mikesell wrote: > > >>On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 11:23, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > >>>>In the old days with real vi, you would: > > >>>>:%s/^v^m// > > >>>>to get rid of them, but vim doesn't like that. > > >>>It depends on how Vim recognizes the file. If Vim displays the file > > >>>as a DOS file, it will hide the ^M and you can't search for it. > > >>>If Vim displays the file as a unix file, it will show the ^M at the > > >>>end of the line and you can search and replace it with the command > > >>>shown above. > > > > Hey, thanks for all of the info on DOS and Unix file editing and all > > the things that CAN go wrong if you are NOT careful. > > > > So I have been careful to stay consistant. As much as I can.... > > > >I have found that if I install CentOS on all my machines that used to >run windows ... I have a fairly consistent UNIX only set of text >files ... Work in progress! >Just one of many suggestions :) And actually the one that is in my target sights. There are still a number of important decision points: Do I actually maintain my NT domain as I have been planing, or do I just switch to NFS? How will I support printing if I punt on NetBios services? The death of Eudora? Or should I attempt WINE? Evolution of Thunderbird? I am actually within a short step to moving into the Linux camp.....