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- Quick Start
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- The benefits of using TextCon may not be immediately
- apparent from reading the documentation. You can give
- yourself a quick demonstration of its capabilities by using
- TEXTCON.DOC as a sample ASCII file.
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- Start by loading the unmodified TEXTCON.DOC into your word
- processor using the word processor's ASCII import command.
- Browse through the document and you'll notice that it may
- appear to be formatted correctly, but the "formatting" is
- all created by use of hard returns and hard spaces. Try
- editing parts of it and you'll quickly see the problems
- caused by unwanted hard returns, extra blank spaces and
- blank lines, and even headers and footers interspersed with
- the text.
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- Then use TextCon to clean up TEXTCON.DOC. Since the file
- has headers in it, you should use the /H option. For
- Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, Displaywrite, XyWrite and
- others, the complete command would be:
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- TEXTCON /H TEXTCON.DOC TEXTCON.TXT
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- For word processors such as MultiMate, Volkswriter, and PC-
- Write, which cannot accept each paragraph as one long line
- with no imbedded returns, use the command:
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- TEXTCON /H /KR TEXTCON.DOC TEXTCON.TXT
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- And for WordStar, use:
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- TEXTCON /H /R TEXTCON.DOC TEXTCON.TXT
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- Then import TEXTCON.TXT to your word processor, again using
- its standard ASCII import command, and examine the results.
- Notice how much cleaner the text is and how much less work
- you have to do to reformat it or edit it. Much of the
- formatting will be gone, but you'll see that it's much
- easier to add your desired formatting to the converted file
- than it is to work with the unconverted one.