changing hard returns to soft ones

From: Emma Jane Hogbin (emmajane_at_xtrinsic.com)
Date: 09/29/03

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    Hello,

    I'm interested in printing a Gutenberg Project text (it's ok, I'm a
    bookbinder--printing is typical behaviour for me). The problem is the line
    breaks in the .txt files.

    Does anyone know how I could convert single hard returns into a white
    space? It must be some variation of:
            
            # mac file to Unix file:
            tr '\015' '\012' < old.txt > new.txt

    ...but I'm not sure what the octal value (?) is for a hard return.

    I'm happy to try other things as well (someone else recommended "importing
    ASCII into a word formatting program").

    Thanks for your suggestions,
    emma 

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