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Subject:Re: Eliminating .txt file hard returns From:Mike Stockman <stockman -at- JAGUNET -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:07:34 -0400
Gary Robinson wrote:
> A colleague of mine downloaded an important reference document from the
> Internet. This document arrived as a .txt file containing hundreds (at
> least) superfluous hard returns. Currently the document is 555 pages
> long. We figure it is actually about a third of that length without the
> extra returns. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to automatically
> remove these returns?
You haven't said which platform you're using, but if you're on a Mac, you
can open the files in a program called TexEdit Plus
(http://members.aol.com/tombb). This program has a handy command called
Quick Modify that contains options to remove carriage returns, line
feeds, or both in a (mostly) intelligent way. On a 500+ page document you
might have to wait a while, but it's the computer doing the tedious part,
not you.
The more-powerful among the ASCII text editors on both platforms also
have features like this... check out TextPad (http://www.textpad.com) on
Windows. TextPad has features to save files as Mac, UNIX, or DOS text,
stripping and adding CR/LF as needed.
Hope this helps.
----->Mike
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