diff --git a/dawg/French/info.txt b/dawg/French/info.txt
index dc81af45d..618909d71 100755
--- a/dawg/French/info.txt
+++ b/dawg/French/info.txt
@@ -16,9 +16,12 @@
 
 LANGCODE:fr_FR
 
-LANGFILTER_POSTCLIP: | tr [a-z] [A-Z] 
+# deal with DOS files
+LANGFILTER_PRECLIP: tr -d '\r' |
+
+LANGFILTER_POSTCLIP: | tr [a-z] [A-Z]
 LANGFILTER_POSTCLIP: | grep '^[A-Z]*$'
-LANGFILTER_POSTCLIP: | tr -s '\n\r' '\000\000'
+LANGFILTER_POSTCLIP: | tr '\n' '\000'
 LANGFILTER_POSTCLIP: | sort -z