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From: grh@rhi.hi.is (Gisli Runar Hjaltason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How to create a MacWrite file from Unix?
Message-ID: <628@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 4 Dec 88 04:23:28 GMT
References: <1988Nov23.133552.19430@intacc.uucp>
Reply-To: grh@krafla.UUCP (Gisli Runar Hjaltason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <1988Nov23.133552.19430@intacc.uucp>, mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann)
writes:
>I have a very large text file (printed out from a database) which I need 
>to transfer to a Mac for desktop publishing purposes.  I would like to
>create a MacWrite compatible file on Unix so that I can specify font styles
>...

A while ago I made a program in MPW C that I used in this same purpose, i.e.
it makes MacWrite-files out of text with embedded formatting codes (e.g.
>italic text< to mean italics etc.) output from a database. It should be easy
to convert for compilation in UNIX since I mainly used the Standard C library
(Apple licensed the header files from AT&T so they are completely (?)
compatible).
If there is a general interest I could post it to comp.sys.mac.sources but
first I would have to translate the identifiers (most are in Icelandic) and
the comments...