Thanks to everyone that gave me their ideas on this.

It turned out that the solution was an easy one.  HP's EDIT/3000 editor can
handle this simply enough by using the following commands

    C '13 to " " in all
    C '10 to " " in all

The apostrophe  followed by the decimal numeric equivalent of the ASCII
character can be used in EDITOR to get the change done..  This is documented
in the by EDITOR manual at the botoom of page 3-5 in case you want to look
at it.

It only goes to show that even after working with HP systems for almost 20
years there are things still to be discovered. :->>

Rgds,
Kevin

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>From: "Kevin J. Mullins" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "HP3000-L List" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Stripping CR/LF characters in ASCII file
>Date: Wed, Jan 28, 1998, 12:09 PM
>

>We have an ASCII file that contains a carriage return and line feed
>character as a delimiter at the end of the data contained in each record
>following by trailing spaces to fill out the record.
>
>Looking for an easy way to strip out these two characters from each record.

>Was hoping to use EDITOR and MPEX to accomplish this but have not found a
>solution.  Contacted VESOFT for possible answers but they did not manage to
>come up with anything within the past day.
>
>Any ideas how this can be done fairly simply?  We could create a quick
>program to do this but really are looking for other options.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.
>Kevin
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