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From: ktrostel@athena.mit.edu (Ian Dowell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Uploading Text Conversion
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Date: 17 Nov 89 04:12:17 GMT
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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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