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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, George Gallen wrote:
> 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?
The hard drive that the comm program was on died on the old machine and
it seemed a lot like work to program the surviving drive when I could
download the files to disk and take care of my problem.
I did get the file in though. The conversion program was in the multi-
mate word processor as nothing more recent recognizes a need to deal
with multimate .doc files.
bs
>
> George
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
> > [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of
> > schwepes@netaxs.com
> > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:32 PM
> > To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
> > Subject: [PLUG] ASCII files
> >
> >
> > 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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