Stripping Carriage Return / Line Feed from text file

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:30:22AM -0500, Mike Schwartz 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?
> 
>     Rather than bothering to strip the CR/LF off, why don't you just overlay
> a "non-filePro file" map over the file?

He *did* say "alien file", Mike.  :-)

Cheers,
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