moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) wrote in message news:<2089@sputnik.COM>...
> As a frequent downloader of Unix articles to my Macintosh, I have a great
> need to have a utility that removes the Return characters from the ends of
> every line in a paragraph. MacWrite does it when you open a text document
> and hit the LINE FEEDS button, and the Fkey Clipper 1.5 USED to do this to
> any text in the Clipboard... until I started using System/Finder 4.1/5.5.
>
> Does anyone have an easy way? A PD/ShareWare application that does this?
> I'd appreciate any info...
>
> "Not only is Bill Atkinson a genius, but he produces
> shippable code."
> -- John Sculley
>
> Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
> INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM
> Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, hplsla, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty
> CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind...
> <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>


Maybe you should consider upgrading to OS X?
Just a thought.

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 3:50:44 +0100, Jim Suttonus wrote
(in message <7f7db0c3.0404081850.544e59a0@posting.google.com>) :

> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) wrote in message
> news:<2089@sputnik.COM>...
>> As a frequent downloader of Unix articles to my Macintosh, I have a great
>> need to have a utility that removes the Return characters from the ends of
>> every line in a paragraph.

> Maybe you should consider upgrading to OS X?
> Just a thought.

If not, what about TexEdit Plus?
Have a look at http://www.tex-edit.com/

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moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) wrote in message
news:<2089@sputnik.COM>...
> > As a frequent downloader of Unix articles to my Macintosh, I have a great
> > need to have a utility that removes the Return characters from the ends of
> > every line in a paragraph. MacWrite does it when you open a text document
> > and hit the LINE FEEDS button, and the Fkey Clipper 1.5 USED to do this to
> > any text in the Clipboard... until I started using System/Finder 4.1/5.5.
> >
> > Does anyone have an easy way? A PD/ShareWare application that does this?
> > I'd appreciate any info...
> >

Unix2ASCII, application program, 18K, created 1994.


If you can't find it I'll email you a copy.

> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) wrote in message news:<2089@sputnik.COM>...
> > As a frequent downloader of Unix articles to my Macintosh, I have a great
> > need to have a utility that removes the Return characters from the ends of
> > every line in a paragraph. MacWrite does it when you open a text document
> > and hit the LINE FEEDS button, and the Fkey Clipper 1.5 USED to do this to
> > any text in the Clipboard... until I started using System/Finder 4.1/5.5.
> >
> > Does anyone have an easy way? A PD/ShareWare application that does this?
> > I'd appreciate any info...
> >
> > "Not only is Bill Atkinson a genius, but he produces
> > shippable code."
> > -- John Sculley
> >
> > Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
> > INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM
> > Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, hplsla, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty
> > CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind...
> > <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>




BBedit - and it the lite version is free

Bill Williams

I use HexEdit, it will work with any file and does a bang-up job of
removing returns or adding like feeds, etc.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hexedit/

It's open source too!

Jim Suttonus wrote:
> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) wrote in message news:<2089@sputnik.COM>...
>
>>As a frequent downloader of Unix articles to my Macintosh, I have a great
>>need to have a utility that removes the Return characters from the ends of
>>every line in a paragraph. MacWrite does it when you open a text document
>>and hit the LINE FEEDS button, and the Fkey Clipper 1.5 USED to do this to
>>any text in the Clipboard... until I started using System/Finder 4.1/5.5.
>>
>>Does anyone have an easy way? A PD/ShareWare application that does this?
>>I'd appreciate any info...
>>
>> "Not only is Bill Atkinson a genius, but he produces
>> shippable code."
>> -- John Sculley
>>
>> Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
>>INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM
>>Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, hplsla, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty
>>CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind...
>><*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>
>
>
>
> Maybe you should consider upgrading to OS X?
> Just a thought.


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