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- From: PHILIP@shark.stmarys.ca (Philip Howard (Computer Services))
- Subject: Re: Mac to Text cleanup utilities (UNIX)
- Message-ID: <PHILIP.119.0@shark.stmarys.ca>
- Keywords: text,mac,QuarkXpress
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- Organization: Saint Mary's University
- References: <82229@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:01:23 GMT
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- > I was wondering if anyone had any UNIX utilities for cleaning up text.
- >fmt and col don't seem to be as robust as I need. The problem I'm having
- >is that Macs seem to think that when I export to ASCII TEXT that it can
- >go ahead and throw anything above 127 in there as well. This includes those
- >pretty-double-quotes and other formatting stuff.
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- I'm not sure if you would consider doing that at the Mac side. Perhaps you
- should look at ADD/STRIP, a handy text cleanup/pretty-up utility for the
- Mac. Should be in the info-mac archives.
-
- Philip
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