Unfortunately I can't do it that way as my text files are only one of many different kinds of files that are in a given directory and the whole transfer is done at once in bin mode. I have written a tool in VB that removes the carriage returns and replaces them with linefeeds but it would be a lot easier if we could do this as part of our perl script which is doing some other massaging of the files. Thanks again for you help and the speedy replies! Kalimeister