Writing to Bernie, Deepish said: >That is certainly in the right direction, but only handles one line at a time. Deep, You could always download the flip binary, load it into your bundle, and call from there with FB's open "Unix". https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~craig/utility/flip/ This is similar to what Christoph Dalitz has done with the drag and drop utility ConvertNewLines: http://lionel.kr.hs-niederrhein.de/~dalitz/data/software/macosx/ConvertNewlines.zip Conversely, in FB you could wash your text's line endings through the Unix tr command: tr ' ' ' ' <macfile.txt > dosfile.txt And you don't need chomp to do it in Perl. This code translates line endings from Mac to DOS: perl -pe 's/ | / /g' There are also sed and awk versions, but these should give you the idea. Ken