[Info-vax] wrong file format

Michael Moroney moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
Wed Dec 23 11:41:43 EST 2020


helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:

>I have a damaged file which looks fine except that I see (in EDT)
>explicit carriage returns at the end of each line AND extra blank lines 
>between each pair of lines.  None of the standard SET FILE/ATTR 
>incantations seems to work.

>Long story and it's late.  :-|  Maybe someone has a suggestion.

Try the following:

$ COPY NL: NEWFILE.DAT
$ APPEND OLDFILE.DAT NEWFILE.DAT
(ignore incompatible file type warning)

If NEWFILE.DAT still has stray <CR> and/or <LF> they can be removed with EDT.



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