joseph@cooper.cooper.EDU (Joe Giannuzzi) (08/29/90)
I recently downloaded the August TN's from apple.apple.com and read them using MacWrite 5.01. No problem. Then a friend of mine tries to read them with MacWrite II and BOOM!, notes 256 and 265 don't load!!! Then I tried Microsoft Word 4.0 and BEEP!, error in converting MacWrite document!!! I don't know if there is something funny in the format of these two notes or if any other notes are affected (excuse me for not going through all 284 TN's last night when I discovered this :) Anyway, what's up? What good are the tech notes if you can't read them? By the way, the subject line of this article was not meant too offend. It was simply an attention getter, and if you ever read the TN's, you know where it came from. Joseph -> joseph@cooper.cooper.edu OR cmcl2!cooper!joseph Disclaimer -> Reality is just a figment of your imagination.
fdm@WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Frank D. Malczewski) (08/30/90)
There was a similar problem with TN 41 (?) in the April batch; it's replacement in the June batch did work, however. Given that I never found out what the April one looked like, I don't really know the differences between the two, other than what is stated in the TN header. Just what is the deal here anyway? :-) --Frank Malczewski (fdm@wlv.imsd.contel.com) (malczews@nunki.usc.edu)
ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) (08/31/90)
And here I thought it was just me... I had problems too. MacWrite II would hang at a certain point in the document. MacWrite 5.0 loaded it OK, until I came to print, when it reported that it was having trouble reading in some of the paragraphs. Sure enough, at various points in the document (both on screen and on paper), it said "THIS PARAGRAPH COULD NOT BE READ IN FROM DISK". I had similar problems with either the June or April tech notes. Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-71-562-889 Computer Services Dept fax: +64-71-384-066 University of Waikato electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00 Neddie denied I dined, indeed.