In emacs, how to strip CR (^M) and leave LF (^J) characters?

Question

I am trying to use hexl mode to manually remove some special chars from a text file and don\'t see how to delete anything in hexl mode.

What I really want is to remove c

Answer 1

(in hexl mode) I'm not sure that you can delete characters. I've always converted them to spaces or some other character, switched to the regular text editor, and deleted them there.