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From: bushnel@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (60163000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: WANTED: Program to translate Mac generic text to UNIX text
Keywords: Program to insert UNIX "new-line" chars at eoln in Mac text file.
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Date: 28 Jul 88 01:05:05 GMT
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Reply-To: bushnel@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bill Bushnell)
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Help:
        I need a utility (Mac or UNIX, but Mac preferred) that translates a
generic text file on the Macintosh to a file I can use in UNIX.  One nice
thing about the Mac is that it has a smart auto-wraparound so that I don't
have to hit "return" at the end of every line; the Mac takes care of that
automatically, without splitting up words.  Unfortunately, while vi has
auto-wraparound, it doesn't keep the words together.  If I try copying a
text file from the Mac directly to UNIX, each paragraph ends up as one line
in vi with the wraparound chopping words in half or worse.  A friend of
mine, running Bitcom on his XT-clone is always complaining that he loses
everything past 80 characters when I mail him messages typed on my Mac.
         I tried writing a short Pascal program to insert a real carriage
return or new-line character in place of the last white-space before the
right margin, but I gave up after I realized that it wasn't a trivial problem.
If anyone has a PD or Shareware program which does this, I would be most
appreciative.  I'm surprised this problem hasn't been mentioned before.  Have
I missed something?

				Bill Bushnell


		bushnel@ucscb.UCSC.EDU	(Bill Bushnell)