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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is there an editor which ends lines with linefeeds?
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Date: 27 Mar 90 17:18:54 GMT
References: <1990Mar24.173707.24959@polyof.poly.edu>
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In-reply-to: korfhage@polyof.poly.edu (A1 willard korfhage (cs) )

In article <1990Mar24.173707.24959@polyof.poly.edu>, korfhage@polyof (A1 willard korfhage (cs) ) writes:
>A carriage return is the standard line terminator on a mac, but in
>unix land the natives want linefeeds to terminate lines. I would like
>to use a mac editor to work with files on our sun (via CAP), but I
>don't want to have to fuss with constantly running the files through
>my mac2unix converter program.  Is there an editor that can put
>linefeeds, and not carriage returns, at the end of text files?

Try the shareware DA "McSink", or its commercial big brother
"Vantage".  Both are excellent for composing text that must be
transferred to systems that require wrapping at a particular column. 

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