Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!littlei!intelisc!rudolph
From: rudolph@intelisc.UUCP (David Rudolph)
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.
Message-ID: <327@intelisc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 88 17:12:34 GMT
References: <4314@saturn.ucsc.edu> <12695@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: rudolph%isc.intel.com (David Rudolph)
Organization: Intel Scientific Computer, Beaverton, OR
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In article <12695@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
>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.

Or for a free solution, first upload to the Unix system, then run the file
throught "fmt" before going into vi.  This will give you lines with a max of
72 characters.  The only problem is that paragraphs must have 2 carriage
returns between them or they will be joined.
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David Rudolph           CSnet: rudolph%isc.intel.com