How are you creating the file?

As Alan said, use only chr(10) for Unix, not chr(13) + chr(10).

You can use chrtran() to replace all chr(13) into chr(10) and strtran() to replace all chr(10) + chr(10) into chr(10).

Vlad

>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