CR vs LF in files - how to keep original chars when importing

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Hi:

What is the recommended way of importing text files in which CRs are
used as record delimiters and LFs are used as cell delimiters within
each paragraph? I'm using Mac 10.5 and LiveCode 4.5 (upgrading to 4.6
later today)? Both of these, CR and LF, are getting turned into LFs
when I bring them in.

I want to bring this type of file into LiveCode, process it using the
chunk functions, and then write it back out to file.

Thanks,

m