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Article #12148Re: Mac to Text cleanup utilities (UNIX)
From: Philip Howard (Computer Services...
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:01
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:01
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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. I'm not sure if you would consider doing that at the Mac side. Perhaps you should look at ADD/STRIP, a handy text cleanup/pretty-up utility for the Mac. Should be in the info-mac archives. Philip ---------------- Philip M. Howard |Internet:PHoward@Husky1.StMarys.ca Technical Support Analyst | Tel: (902) 420-5481 Academic User Support, Computer Services | Fax: (902) 420-5561 Saint Mary's University |"Maintaining regularity Halifax, Nova Scotia CANADA B3H 3C3 | without drugs or medication"
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.text,comp.infosystems.gopher Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pageworks.com!world!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!udel!intercon!psinntp!nstn.ns.ca!PHoward.StMarys.CA!PHILIP From: PHILIP@shark.stmarys.ca (Philip Howard (Computer Services)) Subject: Re: Mac to Text cleanup utilities (UNIX) Message-ID: <PHILIP.119.0@shark.stmarys.ca> Keywords: text,mac,QuarkXpress Lines: 18 Sender: usenet@nstn.ns.ca (NNTP Entity) Organization: Saint Mary's University References: <82229@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:01:23 GMT