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In article <rgetterD8Ds2w.B36@netcom.com>, rgetter@netcom.com (Ric Getter)
wrote:

 > What you are seeing is a line-feed character (^L) at the end of the lines 
 > and there is no way to strip it out with Z-term. The new version of Word 
 > (6.0) has a filter to eliminate this problem. But, not wanting to upgrade 
 > quite yet, I came up with a script for QuickKeys that does a 
 > search-and-replace in Word with a keystroke. If you are a QuickKeys user, 
 > I can send it to you. If not, just do a global change searching for "^L" 
 > (that's the up-carat - shift-6 - and "L") and change it to nothing 
 > (deleting it). There is another invisible character that appears at the 
 > end of the file, but it doesn't affect anything. Let me know how it works 
 > for you.

Actually, LineFeed characters are ^J (^10). (^L is page break/FormFeed.)
The end-of-file character is ^Z (^26).

 > Yitz Etshalom (rebyitz@netcom.com) wrote:
 > : Some help for a novice, please.  I do a lot of file sending to my Mac 
 > : through Z-Term.  In every case, I have to reformat the text (I'm using 
 > : MSWord 5.1x), changing the returns into end-of-lines, changing the 
 > : margin, etc.  Is there some protocol for sz (Send Z-Modem) which will 
 > : automatically reformat it, leaving me with less work on the Mac end?

I recommend purchasing ProTERM -- a new comm program for the Mac. It
includes a built-in text editor with lots of facilities for reformatting
text, not to mention a powerful scripting language. Super fast, too. Check
it out:

   http://www.indirect.com/user/proterm    (or maybe it's users/proterm)


-Walter

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