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In article <761@parcplace.com> khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) writes:
>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...
>
>- 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).
>
There's a really terrific little program called Add/Strip 2.0 that was
written specifically to clean up inter-platform text files. It will delete
CRs at ends of lines while leaving double CRs intact. It will strip or
add LFs. It'll turn X spaces into a tab, or tabs into X space. It'll strip
ASCII 0-8. It'll strip the high bit from WordStar documents (anyone remember
WS?) It'll strip trailing and/or leading spaces. It'll force lines to a
certain length without breaking words. It'll let you specify up to three 
additional replacements per operation. It even does case conversion, 
curly quotes, ellipses, and em-dashes. In short, it rules okay.

I have always been under the impression that this was shareware/PD... but
looking in the "About..." box, I don't see anything to that effect <blush!>
It's by Jon Wind of West Publishing Company. No address given; it's
dated 9/25/87. This little application (38K) is a real gem; I use it
all the time--does anyone know more about its provenance?

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