Coding help with export

[Del]

Hi:

I feel dumb asking this, but I have wasted a lot of time already without a solution, so maybe it is not as easy as I thought it should be, either that or my brain is just not with it today (if so, not the first time).

Under SCO Unix, I am using the "export word" command to produce a flat ASCII file.  Export word defaults to a record (or line) delimiter of \n (newline).  I want to change this to \r\n (carriage return/newline) for compatibility with some windows software that the data is passed to.  Well, I have not been able to find any way to do this with "export word" or even with "export ascii" where I thought I could use r=\r\n, but this gives me a syntax error.

I even tried to issue a SED substitution command after generating the output file:

sed s/\n/\r\n/ filename >target filename
sed s/"\n"/"\r\n"/ filename >target filename

I also tried:

tr "\n" "\r\n"  - this changed the \n to \r but not to \r\n.

None of this worked, I really don't know much about sed  or tr and regular expressions, but thought this had a shot.

So is there any way to export an ASCII file and generate a record delimiter of carriage return/linefeed? Or convert it after generating it with standard Unix commands?

Del
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