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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
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Subject: Re: removal of CR
Keywords: CR-LF CR text WordStar file conversion
Message-ID: <480@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 90 01:39:27 GMT
References: <470@ra.MsState.Edu>
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In article <470@ra.MsState.Edu> pam1@ra.MsState.Edu (Phillip A. McReynolds) writes:
<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.

The '<' is probably a character to indicate an end of a paragraph.  Many of
the newer word processing packages have automatic wrap-around.  The end of
a paragraph being indicated by a CR.  Because you imported a text file full
of CR/LFs, they are being taken as new paragraphs.

<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...

You got it right.
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