Embedded carriage return in PC data

[Jeff Hoffman]

Lorry

At 10:24 AM 20-03-02 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Jeff,
>
>I realize I'm getting into this a little late and it's possible some of the
>suggestions made by Merol or others will do the trick.
>
>I know that we all have our preferred editors, but, since VMS and the TPU
>editor was mentioned somewhere I thought I would just mention that this can
>be used just like a DCL command procedure to search out and replace or
>delete the line feeds or carriage returns. In other words you don't manually
>edit the file per say, you run the TPU procedure. Now after having said this
>I also may have misunderstood and if your o/s is not VMS but, the file is
>from VMS then I apologize and disregard the above.

OK as these are variable lenght records, if I remove all the CR how does
the system know the end of record?

>In either case I would be interested in knowing if and how you resolve this.

If I get a solution I will defintely post it.

>Thanx
>    Lorry

Thanks

Jeff