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From: c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Strip Ctrl Char For Multi Files
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Date: 4 Nov 90 10:53:42 GMT
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In article <21736@duke.cs.duke.edu> fang@physics.phy.duke.edu (Fang Zhong) writes:
>
>	I use a PC to monitor my experiment and take data.  I transfer
>all my data to a Mac with LapLink_Mac.  All the transferred text files
>on Mac have extra line feed control character at each line.  I use
>McSink to open each file and strip the control characters.  This is very
>time consuming.  I wonder if there exists a program to this tedius job
>on all the files in one folder, just like MacCompress and LoneRanger.
>	Thanks for any help.

Hmm. I don't know if such a thing exists.  but if you can't find any,
then I'd be more than happy to hack one out for you in QuickBasic or
something.  E-mail me.
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