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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
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Subject: Re: Unix lines <-> Mac paragraphs converter?
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Date: 21 Dec 90 00:38:40 GMT
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In article <761@parcplace.com> khaw@parcplace.com (Mike Khaw) writes:
#>I'm looking for Mac software, preferably free or shareware, that will
#>
#>- Take a text file imported from Unix and remove the line breaks
#>between lines in a paragraph. I know how to filter files like this
#>on the Unix side, but sometimes you get a README or other doc file
#>as part of a BinHex and it was obviously not done on a Mac. For these
#>files, it would be much more convenient to be able to massage them
#>on the Mac instead of having to upload to Unix.
#>
#>- Do the inverse (sort of); i.e., take a MacWrite or MS-Word doc
#>saved as TEXT-only, and break up the lines within each paragraph
#>so that vi won't choke (vi doesn't like lines with more than 256
#>characters in them).
#>
#>Recommendations?
#>-- 
#>Mike Khaw
#>ParcPlace Systems, Inc., 1550 Plymouth St., Mountain View, CA 94043
#>Domain=khaw@parcplace.com, UUCP=...!{uunet,sun,decwrl}!parcplace!khaw

WriteNow has this facility built in. It's not free, but
it's the best I've seen.

Steve Goldfield