Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Unix lines <-> Mac paragraphs converter? Summary: Add/Strip 2.0 Message-ID: <41714@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 21 Dec 90 04:24:22 GMT References: <761@parcplace.com> <1990Dec21.003840.13327@agate.berkeley.edu> <16963@csli.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) Distribution: comp Lines: 33 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... > >- 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). > There's a really terrific little program called Add/Strip 2.0 that was written specifically to clean up inter-platform text files. It will delete CRs at ends of lines while leaving double CRs intact. It will strip or add LFs. It'll turn X spaces into a tab, or tabs into X space. It'll strip ASCII 0-8. It'll strip the high bit from WordStar documents (anyone remember WS?) It'll strip trailing and/or leading spaces. It'll force lines to a certain length without breaking words. It'll let you specify up to three additional replacements per operation. It even does case conversion, curly quotes, ellipses, and em-dashes. In short, it rules okay. I have always been under the impression that this was shareware/PD... but looking in the "About..." box, I don't see anything to that effect It's by Jon Wind of West Publishing Company. No address given; it's dated 9/25/87. This little application (38K) is a real gem; I use it all the time--does anyone know more about its provenance? -- ........................................................................... : Kathy Strong : "Try our Hubble-Rita: just one shot, : : (Clouds moving slowly) : and everything's blurry" : : clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu : --El Arroyo : :..........................................................................: