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From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn)
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Subject: Re: Unix lines <-> Mac paragraphs converter?
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Date: 21 Dec 90 22:01:40 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).

For the second one, there's a DA called miniWRITER can do this.  It's 
shareware (cost is all of $12), and the current version is 1.6.  Or at 
least *my* version is 1.6, and I think that's current...  :-)

You can do that under the "Modify" option in the miniWRITER menu.  For the 
first thing you requested there's another option in the Modify that looks 
like it might do what you want (it says "Remove Returns"), but I've never 
tried it and I'm not sure it's exactly what you want.

Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu