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Article #5423Unix lines <-> Mac paragraphs converter?
From: Mike Khaw
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 23:11
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 1990 23:11
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I'm looking for Mac software, preferably free or shareware, that will
- Take a text file imported from Unix and remove the line breaks
between lines in a paragraph. I know how to filter files like this
on the Unix side, but sometimes you get a README or other doc file
as part of a BinHex and it was obviously not done on a Mac. For these
files, it would be much more convenient to be able to massage them
on the Mac instead of having to upload to Unix.
- Do the inverse (sort of); i.e., take a MacWrite or MS-Word doc
saved as TEXT-only, and break up the lines within each paragraph
so that vi won't choke (vi doesn't like lines with more than 256
characters in them).
Recommendations?
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Mike Khaw
ParcPlace Systems, Inc., 1550 Plymouth St., Mountain View, CA 94043
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!parcplace!khaw From: khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Unix lines <-> Mac paragraphs converter? Message-ID: <761@parcplace.com> Date: 20 Dec 90 23:11:21 GMT Distribution: comp Organization: ParcPlace Systems, Mt. View, CA Lines: 19