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From: ramaley@csli.Stanford.EDU (Alan Ramaley)
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Subject: Re: Unix lines <-> Mac paragraphs converter?
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Date: 21 Dec 90 01:59:40 GMT
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In <1990Dec21.003840.13327@agate.berkeley.edu> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:

>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...

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.

>#>- 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).

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

>Steve Goldfield

You can do the same in Microsoft Word 4.0.  When you do your "save
as...", click on the options box (or maybe formats); you can specify
"text with line breaks", which chunks your text into lines exactly as
you've formatted it.

--Alan