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Re: What do you use to remove Paragraph Returns from your Text?

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From: cheeser
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1987 03:07
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In article <31935@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>As a frequent downloader of Unix articles to my Macintosh, I have a great
>>need to have a utility that removes the Return characters from the ends of
>>every line in a paragraph.
>I picked up a program off of Delphi called Macify. It does the paragraph
>cleanup, converts '--' to em-dashes, handles typeset quotes and double
>quotes, and all sorts of other things. Prior to this I'd had my own LSC

On the same general subject, there are several good programs that do this
sort of work:

MacSink  This is another da that does damn near anything you can think of to
a text file, even edit it -- a feature missing in most of the other
applications that do conversion -- and sort it.

Apple File Exchange  Not quite the best bet, does some nice conversion from
MessyDos and prodos, that kind of thing, but has never heard of unix...
no option for cr to lf or lf to cr

there are also a number of da and apps that do things like split files up
into smaller files (split) join files together into one large file (join)
and pack and unpack that do just that, though with the advent of packit
and stuffit, these last two are out of date.

All of these are available on systems such as CI$ and GEnie and on BBSes.

cheeser

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From: cheeser@dasys1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What do you use to remove Paragraph Returns from your Text?
Message-ID: <1839@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 22:07:23 EST
Article-I.D.: dasys1.1839
Posted: Wed Oct 28 22:07:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 16:57:12 EST
References: <2089@sputnik.COM> <31935@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: cheeser@dasys1.UUCP
Organization: Datamerica Systems, NYC
Lines: 33
Keywords: Clipper, MacWrite, Text
Summary: Text reformatting in general