Linux text issues I'm sure xywwweb can handle

["Raphael Tennenbaum" raphael@xxxxxxxx]

I seldom bothered thinking about EOF markers and carriage returns/line feeds, but
in Linux -- well, I just don't know where to look in my U2 file.

first, merging Linux-produced text into Xy works quite nicely. however, if I create a
file with SAvedDefined text and then give it to the Linux clipboard, that text, when
pasted into a Linux editor:

1) appears to have an extra carriage return at the end of each line, and

2) has some kind of marker at the end, what I thought at first was an EOF
character. in Gedit this shows as a little tiny box with "001a" stacked in two rows,
in other viewers it seems to be a period.

is there a xywwweb routine which will convert the carriage returns and strip the last
marker in the file?

I'm a bit confused, because I remember using xywwweb's zap26 in the past to get
rid of the last marker, but though I've incorporated it in my routine, the character
still shows up (and besides, am I remembering that the EOF was a Xy3
idiosyncracy?)

and again, Xy carriage returns make DOS-generated text files in Linux look as
though they've doubled. again, I'd like to be able to incorporate a routine that will
strip these in a little XPL program that will SAD defined text to a file for copying to
the Linux clipboard.

-rafe t.