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From: pam1@ra.MsState.Edu (Phillip A. McReynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: removal of CR
Summary: How to convert standard text to WordStar (line endings)
Keywords: CR-LF CR text WordStar file conversion
Message-ID: <470@ra.MsState.Edu>
Date: 29 May 90 07:29:02 GMT
Distribution: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Organization: Mississippi State University
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When generating a standard text file with an MS-DOS text editor, each line
is typically ended with what I take to be a CR or a CR-LF.  However, WordStar
documents are not ended by such a character and so when I import a text 
document into WordStar (for my employer) I have to go through and remove
the '<' at the end of each line one by one.  Is there some way of getting
around this?  I know about flip, the program which converts files between
**IX and MS-DOS and that program does *not* do what I want.  Rather, I would
like to be able to strip CR's off line endings so that files will be easier
to format in WordStar.

Incidently, what are the actual characters which end standard MS-DOS text
files?  People keep saying that they are CR-LF's.  Is this a special character
or is it simply a chr(13) followed by a chr(10)?  Been wondering...

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