parks@bennett.berkeley.edu (Tom Parks) (01/09/91)
In article <1991Jan8.225359.22570@bradley.bradley.edu>, pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman) writes: > I was rather confused by the format of the files of BASIS14, until > I saw the posting here that they were MS WORD format. Well, I'm > confused again. > I downloaded the arc to my pc, unarced it, and everything looked fine. I uudecoded and unarced the files on my Sun workstation with no problems. Then I transferred the files to a MacII using ftp. > But when I went to another PC with MS WORD for MS Windows (I don't use > MS WORD myself) and started trying to print, it seemed nothing would work > except the appendices. The problem that I saw with the other three files > was that MSW would position the text on the page such that it was off the > left edge. Sometimes, by playing with it, I could *see* the left > edge, and the text was there, but it was on the negative side of the > 0 column. When I'd try to print (both on a HP Laserjet II and using > the Apple Laser driver to generate postscript files), it would truncate > the leftmost half inch or so. I observed exactly the same behavior when I tried to print the files. The margins on the ruler had been set at -1.5 inches instead of 0 inches. > Has anyone else had this problem? Is there something I did wrong? Did > I maybe make a mistake unpacking the files? I'm really at a complete > loss.... I didn't have any problems unpacking the files, and since we both experienced the same problem, I suspect that there is something wrong with the original WORD files. Anyone else have anything helpful to add? ---------------- Tom Parks parks@bennett.Berkeley.EDU