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From: cbm@well.UUCP (Chris Muir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Uploading Text Conversion
Summary: Vantage WILL do it.
Message-ID: <14615@well.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 89 18:36:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: well.14615
References: <15940@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <36533@apple.Apple.COM> <15962@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: cbm@well.UUCP (Chris Muir)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In message <15962@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> ktrostel@athena.mit.edu (Ian Dowell)
writes:
-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

Vantage, McSink's commercial cousin has a macro capability that could do
what you want. In addition to the macros is has a programmers interface! If
you can write Pascal or C you can write a piece of code, a VCMD, that can
do anything you want to the text. Vantage is wonderful. For example, in it's
phonetic mode, the Vantage spell checker has "fish" as it's second guess for
the word "ghoti".


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