Index: mttroot/mtt/bin/trans/mtt_fix_integers
==================================================================
--- mttroot/mtt/bin/trans/mtt_fix_integers
+++ mttroot/mtt/bin/trans/mtt_fix_integers
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 
 mttmatrix='\(mtt[A-Za-z][A-Za-z]*\)'
 integer='\([0-9][0-9]*\)'
 
-exec gawk -v RS=${1:-"$"} -v ORS=${2:-"$\n"} ' {
+mtt_join_lines | gawk -v RS=${1:-"$"} -v ORS=${2:-"$\n"} ' {
 str = $0;
 str1 = gensub ( /([^A-Za-z_0-9\.\+])([0-9]+)([^\.0-9])/ , "\\1\\2.0\\3" , "g", str );
 str2 = gensub ( /([^e]\+)([0-9]+)([^\.0-9])/ , "\\1\\2.0\\3" , "g", str1 );
 str3 = gensub ( /([^A-Za-z_0-9\.\+])([0-9]+)e([0-9]+).0([^\.0-9])/ , "\\1\\2\\3\\4" , "g" , str2)
 printf "%s$\n", str3 ;

ADDED   mttroot/mtt/bin/trans/mtt_join_lines
Index: mttroot/mtt/bin/trans/mtt_join_lines
==================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ mttroot/mtt/bin/trans/mtt_join_lines
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+gawk '{ printf ( "%s" , $0 ) }'		|\
+    gawk -v RS="$" '{ printf "%s$\n", $0 }'	|\
+    gawk -v RS=";" '{ printf "%s;\n", $0 }'