Stripping Carriage Return / Line Feed from text file

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Quoting Scott Walker (Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:27:13 -0400):
>
>> I want to use a text file as an alien file.
>>
>> It's fixed length fields but has a carriage return/line feed between
>> each record.
>>
>> Can someone remind me of the easiest way to strip the 0d0a from these
>> records.
>
>Why not just add a (2,*) field at the end of your map, and just ignore
>that field?

I like the SCO program to do this, dtox -- aptly named to detox
things from Microsoft (yeah this was originally a CP/M thing :-).

Bill
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