void strip(char *porig, char *pnew)
{
  char *p, *p1;
  char buf[2];
  register int i, j;

  memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));

  p = porig, p1 = pnew;
  for(i = 0, j = 0; p[i] != '\0'; ) {
	if (p[i] == '\n') break;

	if (p[i] == '-') {
	   i++;
	   continue;
	}

        p1[j] = p[i];
	i++, j++;
  }

}