| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
I know this is off the conference's subject, but I'm sure someone
listening can help solve my problem quickly.
I have a number of files that I'd like to get onto the vax in good
shape. They were produced on an AT using Microsoft Word's ASCII
save command. They consist of long lines with CRs as paragraph
delimiters. By long lines I mean as long as the paragraph is.
My problems are that as follows:
a. EDT. EDT is good in that when the command FILL is executed it does
not upset indentations that consist only of spaces. It is bad in that
it can't (seem to) handle lines longer than 255 characters; the message
I get is something like "users buffer to small..." Note that this use
of the term buffer has no relation to the term buffer in the EDT
manual.
b. EVE. (eve == "edit/tpu/section=evesecini") EVE is good in that it
can handle lines longer than 255 characters. It is bad in that when
the command FILL is executed it removes indentations that consist only
of spaces.
Please help as soon as you can...I really need this stuff for work.
Call John DTN 226-5713
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1358.1 | SAUTER::SAUTER | John Sauter | Wed Apr 20 1988 14:51 | 3 | |
I think you will need to write a program to convert these files
with very long lines into files with shorter lines.
John Sauter
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| 1358.2 | PLDVAX::SMCAFEE | Steve McAfee | Wed Apr 20 1988 15:04 | 5 | |
Sounds like a job for Emacs and mock-lisp. Don't ask me I never
use it...
- steve
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| 1358.3 | use a dummy pad char? | MVCAD3::BAEDER | D. Scott DTN 237-2961 SHR1-3/E19 | Wed Apr 20 1988 19:42 | 5 |
I think the new v2.0 tpu/eve is better at this...the other trick
I use is to put a single char at the start of the paragraph before
the fill, then go back and delete it later after im done...
scott
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| 1358.4 | Only thing I know how to do with TECO! | WJG::GUINEAU | Thu Apr 21 1988 08:40 | 12 | |
When I get these strange file formats, I just pass them through TECO. Do a $ TECO filename TECO will reply with a "*". Type: *EX<escape><escape> where <escape> can be generated by ^[. (where ^ can be generated by holding down the CTRL (control) key :-) John | |||||
| 1358.5 | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Fri Apr 22 1988 20:04 | 8 | |
this was a job for.... PCWRITE, that famous shareware editor that
runs just fine on a VAXmate. It has a manual reformat command
that did the trick with a simple ctrl F5 F7.
Then thru the wonders of DECnet-VAXmate and thinwire ethernet, we
got the files to his vax.
-dave
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