Mac to Text cleanup utilities (UNIX)

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From: Michael Mealling
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:47

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    I was wondering if anyone had any UNIX utilities for cleaning up text.
fmt and col don't seem to be as robust as I need. The problem I'm having
is that Macs seem to think that when I export to ASCII TEXT that it can
go ahead and throw anything above 127 in there as well. This includes those
pretty-double-quotes and other formatting stuff.
    The files are coming from QuarkXpress, through Word and being exported
as Text. I've tried all of the different formats: PC Text, UNIX, etc and they
all have the same cruft in 'em.
    I can write it myself but I hate re-inventing the wheel

Any help would be greatly appreaciated!

(I don't usually keep up with these groups so please respond via mail)
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Subject: Mac to Text cleanup utilities (UNIX)
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Date: 28 Jan 93 17:47:40 GMT
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