David M. Karr writes: > As I still have to work with other applications (Emacs, etc.) which > will continue to write files with DOS line endings, removing the ^Ms > is not a practical option, as I'd have to do that constantly. If Emacs is your major concern, stick the following into your .emacs: (setq-default buffer-file-coding-system 'undecided-unix) New files will then be unix-style. Works great here. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka, PhD UT Houston Medical School Dept. of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology 6431 Fannin MSB4.114 Houston, TX 77030 (713) 500-6313, -7477 (713) 500-7444 (fax) Markus.Hoenicka@uth.tmc.edu http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple