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"Daniel R. Anderson" <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to tell emacs to delete all newlines and rewrap at
> so many chars?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Dan

Sounds like you need to reset the fill-column with:

ESC <number> M-x set-fill-column

and then select your region and use:

M-x fill-region-as-paragraph

-- 
Edward Dodge

/Confabulation Consulting/