el bid wrote:
> Currently I'm using Mike Ferris' TextExtra piping facility to do this,
> using a pretty crude command line that crosses its fingers and hopes there
> are no carats already in the text.
> tr '\n' ^ | sed -e 's/\^\^/$$/g ; s/\^/ /g' | tr '$' '\n'

(1)  If you still have emacs it should understand Mac line endings.
In that case you can set the line length to something large
(ESC 9999 C-x f), mark a region (C-space then move cursor)
and re-wrap the paragraphs (ESC x fill-region).

(2)  sed -e '/./{H;$!d;}' -e 'x;s/^\n//;s/\n/ /g'

HTH,
Anthony
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