"Using gets() will strip either like my program does, so I use that method on UNIX files and DOS files, without any problem :-)"

Do you mean this program?

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
char szBuf[1024];

while(fgets(szBuf)!=NULL)
{
for(int i=0;i {
if(szBuf[i]!='$')
{
printf("%c",szBuf[i])
}
}
}
}