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- From: paetau@mits.mdata.fi (Rasmus Paetau)
- Subject: Re: *Help* I need to make a non-standard text file standard.
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:50:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.215050.29356@prime.mdata.fi>
- References: <H._cc6LL0jI1_@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> <71472@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <71472@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
- >Michel Forget writes about wanting to convert linefeed characters
- >to carriage return/linefeed pairs...
- >
- >A very simple way to do this is to use a wordprocessor
- >(like ST Writer) which has Search and Replace capabilities..
- >
- >I often have to do that with files from the Amiga world (for
- >whatever reason, their text files are formatted like this, with
- >just linefeeds, no CRs), and ST Writer does it just fine.
- >
- >I also use the capture buffer in Flash 1.60 which has the same
- >capabilities to search and replace text.
- >
- >ST Writer is free, and should be available from atari.archive...
- >
- >BobR
-
- You can do the same by loading the text with only linefeeds to 1st
- Word and then saving it immediately, it will be saved with the CR's
- added. At least this is the way it happens for me :).
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