Removal of EOF Marker

[nicatt]

I am concatenating the following files:
copy a_test.txt + b_test.dat = done_testing.txt

a_test has simple notepad text characters
b_test has @pRECTYPE="LEOF" as its only text

The resulting file looks like this:

adata stuff
@pRECTYPE="LEOF"


Note the paragraph mark at the end. I seem unable to remove it. While it doesn't seem to cause a problem when the file is processed on another system (since the mark is AFTER the LEOF statement) it would be nice to remove it.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance......

Bob