diff --git a/FAQ/admin.sgml b/FAQ/admin.sgml
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--- a/FAQ/admin.sgml
+++ b/FAQ/admin.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Id: admin.sgml,v 1.13 1999-01-12 00:49:15 wosch Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: admin.sgml,v 1.14 1999-01-19 03:05:44 jkoshy Exp $ -->
 <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
 
   <sect>
@@ -835,6 +835,17 @@ perl -i.bak -pe 's/\r\n/\n/g' file ...
      <p>file is the file(s) to process.  The modification is done in-place,
      with the original file stored with a .bak extension.
 
+     <p>Alternatively you can use the <url url="/cgi/man.cgi?tr" 
+	name="tr(1)"> command:
+
+<verb>
+tr -d '\r' &lt; dos-text-file &gt; unix-file
+</verb>
+
+     <p>dos-text-file is the file containing DOS text while
+     unix-file will contain the converted output.  This can 
+     be quite a bit faster than using perl.
+
    <sect1>
      <heading>How do I kill processes by name?</heading>