Thanks to all who responded. For the record, the solution I came up with
was tr. The echo -n I could not get to work in this situation. I believe
it was because the ^M was already there. It appears from the man page
that echo -n will merely keep a ^M from being appended. This is a weird
thing that I have yet to really get my head around. It took a tr -d
"\n,\r" to get the functionality I needed. \n or \r alone would not do
it. What the heck does ^M do anyway? I thought that dos did the cr lf
deal seperatly and *nixes used just on but from my experiments it would
appear that the were both ther even though only a singel ^M showed up.
Thanks again to all.
Bret
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