From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: anothy@cosym.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] symbol in the end of each line
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Date: Sun,  2 Jun 2002 11:49:50 -0400
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can you describe the symbol? i think you may be talking about
carriage return. are you looking at files on a dos file
system (like in 9fat, or on the install floppy)? dos (and
derivatives) use a carriage return and line feed at the end
of each line; in plan 9 (and unix, depending on your editor)
only a line feed is needed, so the carriage return becomes a
printable character (a diaganal "CR" in most plan 9 fonts,
or a "^M" in most unix editors).

of course, if you're not talking about carriage return, just
ignore all that. what's the character look like?
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