Emacs shell with ^M's ???

["Jonathan D. Proulx" <jon@ai.mit.edu>]

Hi,

This is a second hand question and the machine in question is not
reachable for testing, but...

On a fresh install of Slink emacs19 and emacs20 are both producing
^M's in the out put of some (but not all) shell commands.

The word I have is:

    The ^M's I was referring to were in a shell within emacs when I
    give a shell command like "ls -lt".  Other commands, like "df" do
    not contain ^M's.

I'd like to point out that I cannot reproduce these on other Slink or
Potato systems, even with the person in question's .emacs file.

The machine is a Sony VAIO PCG-S17K which I setup earlier in the day,
emacs is using the X display, not console mode (I don't know if
console mode is affected).

This is particularly important to *me* because I'm trying to switch my
network off RH onto Debian and this is the Director's first experience
with Debian (Ouch!)

Many Thanks,
-Jon