[pac at fortuitous.com: [NTLUG:Discuss] Fortuitous Technologies Releases Linux Training Manuals Under GPL.\]

[Saqib Shaikh]

I am a friend are currently making "TPS - Text Processing System2" which is
a Linux utility. It will do the following:
1. convert crlf versions: unix2dos, unix2mac, dos2unix, dos2mac, mac2dos,
mac2unix.
2. convert tabs to spaces
3. compress multiple spaces
4. compress loads of blank lines.
5. unwrap text
6. wrap text at a particular column
7. get rid of > symbols in emails
8. get rid of repeated characters, such as 80 dashes or 80 equal signs.

the point of this project is for those of us who want happier reading, and
smaller text files particularly for reading on notetakers where space is a
consideration.

any more ideas for this project. oh, this is an open source project!

oh, and also, in the meantime opening unix text files in wordpad will view
them correctly; notepad won't!
saqib


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak
Sent: 27 December 2000 01:30
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: [pac at fortuitous.com: [NTLUG:Discuss] Fortuitous
Technologies Releases Linux Training Manuals Under GPL.\]


The reason they look like garbage is because linux or unix files don't have
cr/lf pairs like DOS files do; they just have lf to end the line. What I do
myself, is to import the file into my bns, search for control j, and replace
every instance of that with control m control j. Then, either I would read
the file in the bns, or upload it back to the PC. Since I got tired of doing
this, and since I couldn't find a conversion program for it on the net, I'm
in the process of  writing a program to convert between DOS, unix and MAC
files.
Greg Nowak


----- Original Message -----
From: David Poehlman <poehlman1 at home.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2000 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [pac at fortuitous.com: [NTLUG:Discuss] Fortuitous Technologies
Releases Linux Training Manuals Under GPL.\]


> is there a way that these can be viewed in a dos editor or a windows
> equivalent?  they open fine in windows but are full of rubbish.
> Thanks!
>
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