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From: oberst@rumah.UUCP (Daniel J. Oberst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Unix lines <-> Mac paragraphs converter?
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Date: 21 Dec 90 12:47:52 GMT
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In article <16963@csli.Stanford.EDU>, ramaley@csli.Stanford.EDU (Alan Ramaley) writes:
> Hmm.  I don't know of any really good way to do this.  In Microsoft Word 4.0 
> you can do a global "replace <return> with nothing", and that will kill all 
> the returns.  Better a drastic solution than none at all, sez I.
Try this with any word processor:

Globally replace all <return><return> with a string like "PPPPP"
then replace all <return> with nothing, then replace "PPPPP" with
<return>.

McSink or its commercial version Vantage as well as MacIfy will also
handle these sorts of problems.

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Dan Oberst
Cikgu Din di rumah ku.
'Dok buat guapa, Mat Salleh?