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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> 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.
cat -v | more produces the first half as good solid text and the second
half is long winded garbage.
bs
>
> --
> Jeff
>
> Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287
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