While sitting on cloud 9, Donald Roberts said to All something about 
    Novice user questions
 DR> First, I hope to create a macro which will start at the beginning of
 DR> a text file and reformat each paragraph in that file.  Implicit in
 DR> designing such a macro is the ability to search for two consecutive
 DR> enter commands.  Even using the control p literal followed by a
 DR> control m, another control p and another control m, I get the "not
 DR> found" message.  I am obviously missing something but thus far have not
 DR> figured it out.
You are missing a ctrl-j after each ctrl-M.  Ctrl-j is a line
feed character.  All dos text files have a carriage return
[ctrl-m] followed by a line-feed [ctrl-j] at the end of each
line.
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