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# 8  
Old 12-11-2003
hi david,

thats perfect ...... i tried it is fine
thank u so much.
# 9  
Old 02-10-2005
Question No line breaks
Hi

I seem to have a problem not mentioned here. The version of (x)emacs that I use most often doesn't seem to insert any line breaks at each ^M, so when I use dos2unix I lose the line breaks altogether in all text editors (e.g. newer versions of (x)emacs and in Windows). Does anyone have any ideas how to get around this ?

Cheers,
James
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Old 02-10-2005
I don't use dos2unix at all. Just ftp the file to unix and then ed filename. In the status line you will see an indicator that this is a DOS file (i.e. has CRLF as end of line instead of UNIX's LF). If necessary, you can then use 'C-x RET f big5-unix' to change the coding to UNIX.
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