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From: lriggins@blackbird.afit.af.mil (L. Maurice Riggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.wanted
Subject: Re: Unix lines <-> Mac paragraphs converter?
Message-ID: <1820@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
Date: 21 Dec 90 04:05:06 GMT
References: <761@parcplace.com>
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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. 

McSink will do this.

|- 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).

McSink will do this also.  So will many word-processors.  With Microsoft
Works, for example, if you hold down the Option key while selecting
File -> Save As... [Text option checked], Works will put a CR at the end
of each line instead of just at the end of each paragraph.  Don't know
about other WP's
 
|Recommendations?

Yeah, McSink 6.5/7.0 or the latest commercial version, "Vantage."
The next line describes what it can't do with a text file:



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