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Choisya,
A line feed is simply what tells the computer that you have reached the end of the current line and need to start a new one. They work great at the end of a paragraph, if they are used in other places, the document will only look right if the screen displays as many columns as the original document.
A text editor (assuming you have windows) would be something like notepad... or even Word in Microsoft Office (Though that would be overkill for this purpose).
If you are on a Mac, Perl might be installed, if so, I can write a little script that will strip the new line characters (except at the end of paragraphs and for blank lines) pretty quickly.
The PG txt version of War and Peace (edition 12) uses new lines to break paragraphs apart, which makes it easy to convert. If it used normal indentation, it would be a little more complicated (Mainly because you would have to look at the next line before you decided to strip the new line character from the current line), but it still would not be tough.
If you have perl installed, let me know, and I will put together the script for you.
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Bill
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