>Hi everyone
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>We are sending a text file to a customer running a UNIX machine (yuk) and they seem to have a problem with a ^M character at the end of each line (I think that this is the carriage return?). Does anyone know how I can strip out this character so it doesn't cause them heartache?
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>Thanks
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>Chris Kable
>FuelTrac

Hi Chris,

Win/Dos uses a CR and LF for a record terminator and Unix uses just a LF. That's why you have extra CR's in the text. I'm not sure how you are creating the text file so I can't help with the creation but on most unix systems there is a command that will convert the format. On SCO Unix it is dtox. There are also various DOS shareware utilities to do the same chaek www.winfiles.com. I use to have one I think was called called Nortex.exe