Re: "Hard-coding" a text file

[planb@newsreaders.com (J. B. Moreno)]

Ludowick <ludowick@aol.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know of an utility for Apple II's that will take a text file
> that only has carriage returns at the end of paragraphs, and convert it to
> a "hard-coded" text file (lines of about 70 characters long, with a
> carriage return at the end of each line)?  This would make some etext
> files easier to read (for me at least) on an A2.

There's source to a C program that does this (and some other stuff) on
the GNKSA tools page at <http://www.newsreaders.com/>.  It'd need
someone to compile it for you, but...

(BTW -- most current Mac newsreaders [and BBEDIT] have a command to do
this, although they use 72 as the default line length, so if you could
switch back and forth...)

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