schwepes@netaxs.com on 23 Jan 2006 18:40:50 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] ASCII files



On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Art Alexion wrote:

>
> I say "more likely" because of your mention of an i/o error.
>
> Have you tried opening the ascii files with a DOS edit on the
> originating machine?
>
> Another thing you might try is opening the original multimate files in
> another editor that can read them and then saving them to a format like
> RTF that things like openoffice can read, that way you (1) save your
> formatting as well as your text, and (2) possibly avoid the problem you
> are now having.  Does multimate, itself, export to RTF?
>
> --
>
> _______________________________________
> Art Alexion

Surprizingly, the piece was successfully copied eventually.  I will have
to play further games to get the other documents out because the
surviving hard drive doesn't seem to be surviving as well any more.
bs

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