| Jeff Abrahamson on 19 Jan 2006 23:41:14 -0000 |
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:32:15PM -0500, schwepes@netaxs.com wrote: > [18 lines, 148 words, 997 characters] Top characters: _toanrsl > > This is a modest problem but extremely frustrating. For years, and > from the name of the program, some of you will guess how many years, > I have used Multimate as a word processor. This was a DOS program > by the same folks that brought you DBASE. I converted files from > that to ASCII.txt and then tried to use them in a Linux environment, > Suse to be precise, and mtype refuses to read the whole file. It > drops in the middle of a line where there should be no bizarre > characters to be read. Mcopy gives an error messege when I try to > invoke it. I really want to be able to trash the machine and gain > the workspace but I don't want to waste time typing everything out > again in vi or gnu. It would be interesting to see what you get from trying to read it in emacs, or, more simply, by watching what "cat -v | more" says about the contents. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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