I'm assuming you mean LF (linefeed)? Use the 'fromdos' to remove them and the 'todos' command to put them back in. I currently have Slackware 8.0 on this machine and these utilities came with it's standard 'bin' package. I should tell you that the fromdos and tdos programs read standard input and write to standard output so don't forget the redirection symbols (example: fromdos <autoexec.bat >autoexec.txt HTH. On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 07:36:50AM -0400, Mark Rew wrote: > hI LISTS, > > dOES ANYONE KNOW OF A PROGRAM OR A METHOD USING BASH COMMANDS TO REFORMAT > wINDOWS tEXT FILES TO A lINUX FORMAT? i WOULD PREFER SOMETHING THAT i CAN USE > ON THE lINUX SIDE FOR THIS REFORMATTING. > > THANKS > mARK rEW > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup