If you can't remove ^M from the end of the line as part of the creation
process, try this...

tr -d '\015' <INFILE >OUTFILE


Regards

Colin

There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and
those that don't





>From: "Habichtsberg, Reinhard" <RHabichtsberg@arz-emmendingen.de>
>To: "Informix-List (E-Mail)" <informix-list@iiug.org>
>Subject: Re: Whoto remove line feed control character from report output
>Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 11:04:31 +0200
>
>You are talking about Carriage Return (CR, ^M, Hex 0D, Dec 13). Line Feed
>(LF, ^J, Hex 0A, Dec 10) is the usual "End of line" in Unix, for example
>the
>row delimiter in unload files.
>
>^M often appears if you work with windows or DOS where "end of line" is
>marked with the sequence "^M^J". How do you create your "flat file"?
>
>Reinhard.
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org
> > [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org]Im Auftrag von Claus Samuelsen
> > Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 10. Mai 2006 21:58
> > An: informix-list@iiug.org
> > Betreff: Re: Whoto remove line feed control character from
> > report output
> >
> > Franz Grutzmacher wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > Hope someone can help me with this little pain.
> > > I am creating a output flat file for a 3rd party company.
> > The file is
> > > fix length 80columns.
> > > After sending the file to the 3rd party I was informed that
> > there is a
> > > line feed character at position 81.
> > >
> > > Only when viewing the file in TextPad did I manage to see
> > the special
> > > character. In the vi editor I can't see the LF character.
> > >
> >
> > Many newer vi editors (vim) doesn't display the line feed
> > character (^M) unless you open the file with '-b' option.
> > I usually remove ^M using vi command ':%s!^M!!g'. ^M is
> > entered as Ctrl+V Ctrl+M
> >
> > > Now how do I remove this character from each line of the
> > file. Can the
> > > 4gl report do this for me?
> > > OS= SCO
> > >
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