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Article #7977Re: Uploading Text Conversion
From: Ian Dowell
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1989 04:12
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1989 04:12
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In article <36533@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>Does anyone know of the existence of a DA that
>>will convert a text file or the clipboard to
>>plain, uploadable text - no Mac characters like
>>bullets or accented letters, no curly quotes,
>>80 character lines, etc?
>
>McSink is a shareware DA that does that. An enhjanced, commercial version is
>callt Vantage.
I've tried the shareware DA and as far as I can tell, it doesn't do sets
of replacements. Am I missing something? Does Vantage allow sets?
>
>A stand-alone application that does it is "Add/Strip".
This works fine under Multifinder but I'm really looking for
a DA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!ktrostel From: ktrostel@athena.mit.edu (Ian Dowell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Uploading Text Conversion Message-ID: <15962@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 17 Nov 89 04:12:17 GMT References: <15940@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <36533@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: ktrostel@athena.mit.edu (Ian Dowell) Distribution: na Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 29