casa@charon.unm.edu (Jim Pittman) (07/15/87)
Re: >> ... Has anyone run into a problem with WordPerfect on the GS losing files >> in a strange way? ... found that only about half of the file was there, >> and the end was badly garbled (@ signs and other funny marks) .... > .... just ran into the same problem .... However, I was using a different > program - Applewriter (dos version) .... my file had also been cut off. > I used Copy II Plus to look at the file and discovered that it was chopped > off just where the inverse @ symbols began. I don't know how the @ symbols > got there. Can anyone explain this? Anyway, I used Screenwriter II to > try and edit it out since Applewriter couldn't read them in ... I don't know how the @ symbols got there, but Apple Writer (and at least one other word processor, Super-Text) uses HEX 00 (may display as @ symbol) as an end-of-file marker. Write-Away is another word processor that CAN read in a file with HEX 00s. You could use the Copy II Plus sector editor to find and change the HEX 00s to something else: spaces (HEX 20) or CRs (HEX 0D). The Copy II Plus version 5.5 sector editor is more useful than the one in later versions, but they should work too. Will version 5.5 run on a GS? Still using a II Plus - Jim Pittman - University of New Mexico - 505-277-8131