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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
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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]

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have had no experience basing your opinions on casual gossip [....] and
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