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Removal is not a problem. The only file I have has one line with >400,000 characters. Where ^M was at one time now has XXX but this is still all on one line.

I need to insert a carriage return at...

I thought my original message was clear.

This is one long file in a single line. Wherever XXX appears I need a carriage return or newline so the file can be read and edited with vi.

So I'm not...

In this awk line won't "" just remove each occurrence of XXX?

Thanks, I've been trying to do this in vi with:

:%s/XXX/^M/g

and all I get are the ^Ms when I wanted a carriage return.

BTW I know to use ctrl-v before the M.

I have a long file originally created with vi but at some point saved with MS Word. At another time I substituted all occurrences of ^M with XXX. Now I'd like to get this back to vi but with the XXX...

Vi is my choice. Powerful, fast, low overhead.

I read last night in MacWorld that Leopard included a new version of vi.

Is there a list somewhere of the changes? I use vi a lot.

Gale

I have a file that at some point I removed all ^Ms and now I'm trying to put a newline return where the ^Ms used to be.

I probably removed the ^Ms a few years ago in Linux or SCO Xenix and now...