gVim showing carriage return (^M) even when file mode is explicitly DOS

Question

I\'m using gVim on Windows. My code shows ^M characters at the end of lines. I used :set ff=dos to no avail. The ^M characters remain

Answer 1

Actually what worked for me (on 64-bit windows, gVIM: 7.2 ) was:

:set ffs=dos

not just: ff