David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu> writes:

>	Thanks to everyone who replied so quickly. The vi command (below)
>did the trick, and Steve Grunza (thanks!) quickly explained the command for
>me.

you have to be aware, though, that the IBM-PC encoding also uses different
character values for most 8-bit national characters than, say, ISO-8859-1,
and converters will also take care of that.  If you only have US-ASCII files
that isn't such a pressing matter, naturally.

mkb