Duplicate newline characters

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From: Tim Cole
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 00:00

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I have a Sun Solaris 2 machine and a Mac, both on a Mac network. The Mac
has a DOS card, and DOS has a partition on the Mac disk. If I copy a file
from the DOS partition to the Sun, all newline \12 characters in the file
are duplicated.

I ought to be able to remove the duplicates using tr, but have so far failed.

It is easy to squeeze all \12 strings to a single newline using tr -s
'\12', but I want to retain the duplicates in the original file that
represent blank lines.
Please, how can I do this?

Tim Cole

Tim.Cole@mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk     tel: +44 1223 426356    fax: +44 1223 426617
MRC Dunn Nutrition Centre, Downhams Lane, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1XJ, UK

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Date: 1996/05/03
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