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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: Strip Ctrl Char For Multi Files
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Date: 4 Nov 90 16:55:30 GMT
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In article <21736@duke.cs.duke.edu> fang@physics.phy.duke.edu (Fang Zhong) writes:
>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.

Well, you can try Apple File Exchange that came with your system.  It has 
several options for stripping or converting control characters.  You could 
also check the Sumex archives for either AddStrip 2.9 (I think that is the 
latest version), or BatFiler.