Code:
[davem@deneb data]$ dos2unix < out_file_01.txt > out_file_02.txt
dos2unix: Binary symbol 0x00 found at line 5560351
dos2unix: Skipping binary file stdin
[davem@deneb data]$ vi out_file_01.txt
[davem@deneb data]$ dos2unix < out_file_01.txt > out_file_02.txt
[davem@deneb data]$ head out_file_02.txt | awk -F"," '{NF=35}1' OFS=","
N1000,024,2809003,,,3,DYNAMIC AVLEASE INC,PO BOX 7,,BRIDGEWATER,VA,22812-0007,1,165,US,20090520,20090520,,5,2,V,50003414,,,,,,,,,,,,,
N1000,024,2809003,52215,1985,3,DYNAMIC AVLEASE INC,PO BOX 7,,BRIDGEWATER,VA,22812-0007,1,165,US,20090520,20090520,1T,5,2,V,50003414,,20090602,,,,,,,,,,,
N1000,024,2809003,52215,1985,3,DYNAMIC AVLEASE INC,PO BOX 7,,BRIDGEWATER,VA,22812-0007,1,165,US,20090520,20090520,32,5,2,14,50003414,,20091118,,,,,,20110930,,,,,
N1000,024,2809003,52215,1985,3,DYNAMIC AVLEASE INC,PO BOX 7,,BRIDGEWATER,VA,22812-0007,1,165,US,20090520,20090520,32,5,2,V,50003414,,20091118,,,,,,,,,,,
N1000,024,2809003,52215,1985,3,DYNAMIC AVLEASE INC,PO BOX 7,,BRIDGEWATER,VA,22812-0007,1,165,US,20090520,20090520,32,5,2,V,50003414,,20091118,,,,,,20110930,,,,,
N1000,024,2809003,52215,1985,3,DYNAMIC AVLEASE INC,PO BOX 7,,BRIDGEWATER,VA,228120007,1,165,US,20110411,20090520,1T,5,2,25,50003414,,20130711,,,,,,20140430,01032549,,,A0070C,
N1000,024,2809003,52215,1985,3,DYNAMIC AVLEASE INC,PO BOX 7,,BRIDGEWATER,VA,228120007,1,165,US,20110411,20090520,1T,5,2,V,50003414,,20130711,,,,,,20140430,01032549,,,A0070C,
N1000,024,2809003,52215,1985,3,DYNAMIC AVLEASE INC,PO BOX 7,,BRIDGEWATER,VA,22812-0007,1,165,US,20110411,20090520,32,5,2,V,50003414,,20091118,,,,,,20140430,,,,,
N1000,024,2809003,52215,1985,3,DYNAMIC AVLEASE INC,PO BOX 7,,BRIDGEWATER,VA,22812-0007,1,165,US,20110411,20090520,32,5,2,V,50003414,,20091118,,,,,,20140430,01032549,,,,
N1000,024,2809003,52215,1985,3,DYNAMIC AVLEASE INC,PO BOX 7,,BRIDGEWATER,VA,228120007,1,165,US,20110411,20090520,41,5,2,V,50003414,,20111201,,,,,,20140430,01032549,,,,
[davem@deneb data]$
Such is life, I was sure that I'd already ran dos2unix on it - but it would seem not - I hate the way that vi now suppresses the control characters.
Anyway many thanks to everyone for the assistance.
Regards
Gull04