Hey Mark, There is the command dos2unix which will basically strip out the carriage returns. There is also the opposite command unix2dos that'll put them in. They are on the rh7.3 disks, but I'm not sure which one. Jim Wantz WB0TFK On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, 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 >