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LineBreak 2.5 is a simple utility for Mac OS X that converts line breaks in text documents. It can convert to Mac, UNIX, and DOS formats. It is written entirely in Cocoa and supports drag and drop in the finder. 
My main axe for word crunching is Tex Edit Plus, which performa these functions masterfully, but not everyone uses TE+, and getting rid of those pesky line feeds and carriage returns in text downloaded form the Web or received in emails can be tedious if your word processor or text editor does no incorporate these text cleaning functions. LineBreak 2.5 will be a useful utility for users in that position.
Features:
• Protects against the corruption of non-text documents. You can even make your own rules! • Written in Objective C using the Cocoa API. • Licensed under the GNU GPL. This means it is really free and source code is included.
New in this version:
I found that LineBreak works great for clenaing up email text pasted into a text document. Fast and slick.
System requirements:
LineBreak is freeware
You can check it out at:
Julius 1.0.1 Arabic-Roman number converter Antilog has announced Julius I.0.1, the new release of their free Roman-number converter for the Macintosh. Julius isn't exactly useful, at least for most of us, but it's fun.
Do you want to be able to transform a number into Roman digits?
Julius I is a simple Arabic-Roman number converter: you simply write the number (strictly positive, no decimal, under 4000), click on the convert button, and the Roman version of your number is displayed, in a copy-enabled field. 
What can I say? It works as advertised.
New in this version:
System requirements:
Julius is freeware
For more information, visit:
Reinitializing From Yoon Ha Lee Hello Mr. Moore, While I'm reasonably content with Mail.app in Mac OS X (for email I'm no power-user), I can't help wondering if there is an alternative that archives emails as plain-text files, or offers that option? It occurred to me this week when I was referencing an old archived message by copying over the .mbox file from CD-R backup that there had to be a better way to do this. I suppose I could manually archive old emails, but it seems like such a hassle... Thanks in advance,
Yoon Ha Lee
Hi Yoon;
Mail app mbox files which should be openable with a text editor. I haven't tried it with Mail files, but you can cetainly open Eudora mbox files with Tex Edit Plus.
However, that's not really what you asked. If you want an email client that archives messages in real plain text files, Nisus Email should be right up your alley. In fact, you can configure Nisus Email to open incoming emails in your favorite word processor or text editor, and to send messages from within that application (Nisus hopes you will choose Nisus Writer, but it will work with most any text crunching application).
You can read my review of an older version of Nisus Email here:
The OS X version works the same as the Classic version. I use it and like it.
Charles
From Everett Baker
There is a good reason to reinit a disk drive every year or two. The magnetic coating on the platter may not be uniform or may have a small flaw which allows the polarity of a bit to change state. This is usually called a "soft" error because rewriting the sector cures the problem. If, however, the error is in the prologue or epilogue of a given sector it does not get written to until you reformat the drive. So, as time goes by, small changes inevitably occur that affect the reliability of the drive and an annual reformat guards against this. - Ev
Good point Ev. I've never encountered any problems, even in hard drives that haven't been reinitialized for many years. Indeed, I've never had a hard drive failure or even significant glitches in over a decade of Mac computing, save for with a brand new Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM jobbie, which was cranky out of the box. However, for mission critical drives, taking your advice would probably be prudent.
Charles
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