SAP Note 15639 - Removing CARRIAGE RETURNS from device types

Symptom:

A device type is used that works with CARRIAGE RETURN (CR, hex 0D) and NEWLINE (NL, hex 0A). However, you do not want to use CARRIAGE RETURNS.

Cause and prerequisites

Consulting

Solution
You will find information on maintaining device types on the CD Online Documentation (see Note 7363).
You should copy the original SAP device type (for example, ASCIIPRI) (see Note 3166) into the customer namespace (for example, ZASCII).
In Transaction SPAD you find the CARRIAGE RETURNS at the following points:
Print control for device type:
'SLINE' and 'SPAGE' contain CR in hex code: '0D'.

Formats for device type:
Title page of X_PAPER, appearance: '\r'.
End of a page of formats: '\r'
End of a line of formats: '\r'

After removing the CR character save the formats.
Now the print outputs with the copied device type should not contain any more CRs.

Additional key words

SPAD, CR, LF, \r, \n