I found a useful way of converting a file, simply load it into Netscape browser and it will not display the ^M characters.
Then you can print it off or copy (alt-c) and paste the text into an editor, or put it into netscape composer. John. "M.C. Vernon" wrote: > > Dear all, > > I had the misfortune to be stuck with MSWrite over the vac, and > although I told it to save as plain text, it didn't. I can delete most of > the cruft, but there is ^M at the end of each and every line. I've tried > catdoc, word2x, and sed, but none of them will remove them. Can you > suggest anything, please? > > please cc me as I'm not on this list ATM. > -- John Stevenson, Objective Alliance: www.oa.nl "Its grip'd, its sorted.."