U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
                WATER-RESOURCES INVESTIGATIONS REPORT 93-4076

                            U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
                         HYDRO-CLIMATIC DATA NETWORK
                                    (HCDN)
                              STREAMFLOW CD-ROM

                       [This is the \READ_ME.UNX file]


         The ASCII files on this CD-ROM were created on a PC.  Because
      of this, each line of text in a file on the CD-ROM ends with the
      pair of characters carriage return and line feed (octal 015 012,
      decimal 13 10, or hexadecimal 0D 0A).  On a UNIX machine, each
      line of text ends with just a line feed character.  As a result,
      the extraneous carriage return is the last "character" of each
      line.  It may be invisible or it may be displayed on the screen as
      ^M (control-M) depending on the method used to display the file.
      Copy ASCII files to hard disk from the CD-ROM with the tr command

             tr -d "\015" <file_on_CD-ROM >new_file_on_hard_disk

      to get rid of the unnecessary carriage return characters.