Jeff wrote, his frustration level rising,

>Ken,
>
>That code you posted here, I really appreciate you did that but all I get are
>compile errors (see below)

--- big snip ---

You were bitten by several bugs, including DIM syntax introduced in a 
later version of FB^3 (my fault, i thought the "DIM AS XXXX 
[variable]"  was legal in 3.2.0, but apparently the change came in a 
later version), and several  constant underscores lost in the e-mail 
transfer (we warn about these all the time, if you copy and paste 
your code from the Associate web site).

Rather than bore the list with a code repost, I have rewritten the 
code to include the earlier FB^3 syntax (I hope). I put the revised 
code in a package with a test file containing both linefeeds and 
carriage returns, and a compiled version of the app to remove the 
linefeeds (in case you still have trouble with the code). You can 
download it here:

<ftp://ftp.futurebasic.org/FutureBasic/dropbox/mungedfiletest.sit>

Ken

p.s. Spring for the bucks and upgrade. It's worth it if you are 
serious about coding like I think you are. Learning is much easier 
when everyone here is on the same playing field. It also saves time 
playing catch-up when you do upgrade. FBII is growing more and more 
irrelevant each day, and the advent of OSX will force us to either 
progress or forever remain stagnant.