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Article #9150Re: text file modifier
From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1989 22:02
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1989 22:02
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dcbii@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM (dcbii) writes: >I am looking for a program that can modify text files (a filter program). >I have several of these, but unfortunately, none of the ones I have seem to >be able to change a unix-style file with linefeeds-only at the end of the line >to a Mac style file with a carriage-return-only at the end of a line. I use both Add/Strip and McSink (the shareware version of the DA Vantage). Both are a *lot* of help in moving text back and forth, creating paragraphs, wrapping to length, curling and (in the case of Add/Strip) uncurling quotes and the like. For moving stuff from a Mac to Unix, I prefer Add/Strip. I used to use Macify, but it's good only for importing text, while Add/Strip goes both ways. McSink is really good for some stuff because it's an interactive DA rather than a batch processor and good for quick and dirty one-time hacking that doesn't require spawning a new application. -- Chuq Von Rospach <+> chuq@apple.com <+> [This is myself speaking] When it comes to matters ourside your specialties, you are consistently and brilliantly stupid [....] with respect to matters you haven't studied and have had no experience basing your opinions on casual gossip [....] and plain misinformation -- unsuspected because you haven't attempted to verify it. -- Robert Heinlein to J.W. Campbell, Jr. 1941
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!chuq From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: text file modifier Message-ID: <37142@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 8 Dec 89 22:02:59 GMT References: <5460@ncrcae.Columbia.NCR.COM> Organization: Life is just a Fantasy novel played for keeps Lines: 25