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two questions.
1. How did you convert the file to ASCII.txt,
and how are you trying to use it in the linux environment?
Instead of mcopy, can you use ftp with ASCII mode?
George
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> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:32 PM
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> Subject: [PLUG] ASCII files
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> 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.
> bs
>
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