This little program is a slightly modified FILT7A.  That program is
used to remove:

	high bits set
	unwanted control characters
	orphan line feeds
	soft-hyphens
	soft-carriage returns
	trailing spaces
	tabs

Option 1 removes WordStar 'dot commands', option 2 retains those.  Both
keep form feeds.  Both options have the ability to restore tabs at opti-
imum opportunity or have no tabs.  (The third option is used in assembly
level source code, removes form feeds and inserts tabs at every optimum
location - none in DB strings.)

This program is a special version for typesetting purposes.  It converts
all paragraphs into a single line.  It does this by ignoring any "soft
carriage return" as well as any line feeds that follow that carriage re-
turn.  (WordStar files already have a trailing space after a "soft CR-LF
combination.)  The longest line it can handle is 4096 characters.  This
is the equivalent of 56 lines of 72 characters each line.  Surely no
single paragraph would exceed that length.


	 NOTE:	The FILT7.DOC file is included for any
		additional information that might be of
		interest.  (FILT7A made a trivial change
		that had no effect on the .DOC file.)


					- Irv Hoff
					  Los Altos Hills
					  01 June 87
					  (415) 948-2166 voice