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From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 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 18:06:18 GMT
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In article <4314@saturn.ucsc.edu> bushnel@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bill Bushnell) writes:
>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.

There's a program that does exactly this.  It's called "Add/Strip", the
latest I've seen is version 2.12.  It is available from Compu$erve and
GEnie, or from the author (with source code in Turbo Pascal) for $6 ($5
if you supply the disk).  The address is:

	Jon Wind (A/S 2.12)
	7180 Montrose Road
	Woodbury, MN  55125

It's a handly program and well worht having.

Edward Moy				Principal Programmer - Macintosh & Unix
Workstation Support Services		Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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