Removal of non-printable characters

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From: wang
Date: Wed, 01 May 1991 15:47

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Hi,

I have got a question for you emacs experts: I have some files which
contain bunch of non-printable characters, such as Control-L (served
as page breaker), Control-M (line breaker). How do I remove all of
them from the current buffer if I edit such a file in Emacs? I could,
in an awkward way, use "search" or "query-replace" function to find
and kill those characters one by one, but it's very slow (even though
I can define a little macro to improve the efficiency).  Can you offer
me any smarter way?

Thanks.

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