How to remove CR from flat file in Windows

One of the columns in my table is varchar2(2000) and contains multi-line data.
New lines are identified by the linefeed terminator (chr(10)) in the table.
I am writing all records from this table to a flat file. My machine is running Win XP.
I am using UTL_FILE.PUT procedure to write to the file.
Problem is, for multi-line data each line gets appended with a <CR> in addition to the linefeed.
So each line in the file ends with <CR><LF> as opposed to only <LF> in the table.
So my question is, how do I get rid of this extra <CR> or chr(13) in the file ?
Is there anything I can set in the UTL_FILE package or alternatively is there any
DOS utility which can strip the file of the chr(13) ?
I understand this is Oracle default behaviour while writing to file on Win platform, i.e.
using a <CR><LF> as a line terminator. How can I change this behaviour.
Please help, very urgent !!
Regards,
Azhar.

Hi Kishore,
Thanx for the response.
What am trying to do is dump the table in a flat file.
Then create an External table (exactly same as original table) pointing to the flat file.
Due to occurence of the extra <CR> column length increases. For eg. multi-line column data of varchar2(2000) in original table having say 43 lines becomes 2042 characters now. As a result I will have to make external table with column length varchar2(2042) to read the column !! that's the problem.
I want external table definition to be exactly the same as original table.
This is part of a generic utility which am developing.
The only option I have right now is to use unix2dos utility and strip the <CR> characters, but I am looking for something which can eliminate <CR> at file creation itself.

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