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From: ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: UNIX -> Mac WP conversion
Message-ID: <2679@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 89 05:15:24 GMT
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From article <21217@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, by jfh@enzyme.berkeley.edu (John Heckendorn):
> Well, the news on converting vi-type UNIX files to RTF or another
> Macintosh format is that there is currently *no* utility that will
> do a complete job...

I don't understand what you want: vi is an editor for straight ascii
text, and any Mac WP I've seen is happy to accept straight text.
Add a "ruler" with tabs every 8 (or 4, or whatever) spaces, select a
fixed-width font (Monaco, Courier) and you've reduced your mac to a vt100.

If what you REALLY want is nroff (troff) -> MacWP, then a possible solution
is to write a back-end for DITroff (Device-Independent troff).  That's how
the PostScript printer drivers do the deed.

Or, if what you want is reformatted text, try the McSink shareware DA editor
(or its commercial version, Vantage); these have options to join-and-wrap
text to a variety of boundaries.

All these solutions are fairly well-defined and well-understood.  So what
do you REALLY want?

=Ned Horvath=