vi(m) problem

[gerald.feldman at hp.com (Jerry Feldman)]

On Monday 08 November 2004 4:24 pm, Matthew Valites wrote:
> Dan,
>
> >in dumping plain text files from .doc files using open
> >office, i find that certain punctuation marks show up
> >as hard to find sequences when i attempt to edit the
> >file using vi (actually vim).
>
> Try running the file through a utility called dos2unix.  Depending on
> your distro you should have it available already.  If not, I'm sure
> google will give you a link or two from which to get it.
All dos2unix does is to convert the crlf line endings to lf. It should be 
available on most distros. 

Dan,
First, please send plain text only. 
Second, please send an example in-line. I just converted a .doc file that 
has indexes and tables, and vim has no trouble with it. 

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