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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: removal of CR
Keywords: CR-LF CR text WordStar file conversion
Message-ID: <1990May29.222706.9840@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 29 May 90 22:27:06 GMT
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Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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In a stock text file, you have CR/LF pairs. In a *word processor* file,
you have something else that the wp can remove at will, a so-called
"soft return" code. What this is varies from wp to wp.  I think that
what WordStar used was a CR with the 8th bit set.

But when you import a text file, it is ALL CR/LF's, not "soft" ones.
About the only way around this problem is to edit the file, looking for
PAIRS of CR/LF's (because these are paragraph ends) and turn them into
something unique, such as "ZQ@". Then remove all the remaining CR/LFs.
The problem is that classic WordStar always hung when I tried
this on long files. If it doesn't, go back, change ZQ@ into
CRLFCRLF, and reform.

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