Re: Reformatting Textfiles

[kls0@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires )]

In <2pefjj$jin@terrazzo.lm.com> rgg@terrazzo.lm.com writes:

> 
>I've got some textfiles which I got via FTP, and when I try to view them 
>on my GS with various text viewers they do not resolve into proper lines and
>paragraphs. I heard that this was because of how the GS does not need 
>Line feeds while they are needed on IBM computers. Well, I tried various
>strippers that purport to remove LFs, and while there was some improvement,
>the file was still pretty difficult to read. If anyone can tell me how I 
>can fix these files so that they will appear as they were meant to on the 
>original platform, I'd appreciate it. 

There's lots of programs out there that will do what you need.  The two I
use the most are GNO's "lf2cr" and also the NDA version.
 

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