Today when I went to open one of my documents, MS Word 6.0 refused to
  recognize it as a Word document.  It insisted on converting it from
  ASCII text.  When it did, the top of the document was full of garbage
  of various sorts, but eventually, the document was there.
  Actually, it was sort of there.  What was there was a slightly older
  version that was missing a major paragraph I had typed in last night.
  Since I had printed it out -- I managed to type the paragraph in
  again.  .  Then I discovered that the copy of
  the paragraph was much further down the file after some other garbage.
  One more thing -- when I closed the document the night before, I had
  done a save and then a print.  In the middle of it formatting the
  print file to send off to the OS/2 Print spooler -- there was some
  sort of error message on the screen.  It said something like "unable
  to find file MF00006.TMP".
  Any clues?  What was that TMP file?  That error message has happened
  to me before on occasion without any real reason.  In the past, it
  seems to have forced me to do a "save as" and give my file a new name
  in order to proceed without getting an error.
                             dale@ghawk.com
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