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From: andrew@idacom.UUCP (Andrew Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth Source Format
Message-ID: <610@idacom.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 89 15:27:32 GMT
References: <8904131653.AA10280@jade.berkeley.edu>
Organization: IDACOM Electronics Ltd., Edmonton, Alta.
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In article <8904131653.AA10280@jade.berkeley.edu>, MARKETON@SUNRISE.BITNET (JOHN MARKETON) writes:
>   Some future release - Text format as the only format.  A conversion program
>     to convert the 16 x 64 format to text format (basically nukes the trailing
>     spaces and sticks a carraige return at the end of the line, and nukes the
>     blank lines).

By "nuking the blank lines", I assume you mean trailing blank lines in a block.
In that case, you might want to replace them with a form feed character similar
to how trailing blanks on a line are replaced by a carriage return.  This way,
you can convert the file back to block format exactly as it was.
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